Align shapes over PowerPoint tables quickly with this timesaving feature.

PPT Productivity lets you select shapes on your slide and click to align them over your PowerPoint table. By default shapes align to the centre of table cells when you click the feature, but you are also given the option to choose an alternate alignment point - eg to the left, right or center of table cell horizontally and to the top middle or bottom of table vertically.

There are three feature buttons (and you can assign each a custom PowerPoint shortcut):

  • Align over table: Select shapes to be aligned and click. Feature finds the table and aligns the shapes to each cell (letting you choose your preferred alignment point within table cells)
  • Align over column: Select shapes to be aligned and click. Feature aligns the shapes to the centre of the closest column (letting you choose your preferred alignment point within each column)
  • Align over row: Select shapes to be aligned and click. Feature aligns the shapes to the centre of the closest row (letting you choose your preferred alignment point within each row)
You do not need to select the table - the feature identifies the table on your PowerPoint slide and auto aligns selected shapes to the cells, based on your selection of the row, column or table feature buttons.

Note that this feature was updated in October 2023 to support merged cells and to allow a choice of alignment preference over table cells (eg align left of cells, middle of cells etc).