{"id":21248,"date":"2019-11-27T00:20:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T05:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingintowallstreet.com\/biws\/?post_type=biws_kb&#038;p=21248"},"modified":"2024-09-11T07:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T12:07:04","slug":"powerpoint-align-objects","status":"publish","type":"biws_kb","link":"https:\/\/breakingintowallstreet.com\/kb\/powerpoint\/powerpoint-align-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Building A Company Profile in PowerPoint: Alignment Tricks (12:50)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_81 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Building A Company Profile in PowerPoint: Alignment Tricks<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingintowallstreet.com\/kb\/powerpoint\/powerpoint-align-objects\/#Shortcuts_Introduced_These_require_PowerPoint_2010_or_later\">Shortcuts Introduced (These require PowerPoint 2010 or later)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingintowallstreet.com\/kb\/powerpoint\/powerpoint-align-objects\/#Lesson_Outline\">Lesson Outline<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<style>.enteremail__large--inline{margin:60px auto!important}<\/style>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Shortcuts_Introduced_These_require_PowerPoint_2010_or_later\"><\/span>Shortcuts Introduced (These require PowerPoint 2010 or later)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Shift + Click<br \/>\nSelect Multiple Shapes<\/p>\n<p>Alt, N, SH<br \/>\nInsert Shape<\/p>\n<p>Shift + Draw Line<br \/>\nDraw Straight Line<\/p>\n<p>Alt, H, G, A, C<br \/>\nAlign Center<\/p>\n<p>Alt, H, G, A, M<br \/>\nAlign Middle<\/p>\n<p>Alt, H, G, A, H<br \/>\nDistribute Horizontally<\/p>\n<p>Alt, H, G, A, V<br \/>\nDistribute Vertically<\/p>\n<p>Ctrl + G<br \/>\nGroup<\/p>\n<p>Ctrl + Shift + G<br \/>\nUngroup<\/p>\n<p>Shift + Drag Shape<br \/>\nMove Shape &amp; Keep Horizontal or Vertical Axis Constant<\/p>\n<div class='code-block code-block-6' style='margin: 8px 0; clear: both;'>\n<div class=\"kb-adinsert-modal\">\n    <div class=\"kb-adinsert-top\">\n      <div class=\"media\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28448\" src=\"https:\/\/biwsuploads-assest.s3.amazonaws.com\/biws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/22172833\/Power-Point-Pro.png\" alt=\"PowerPoint Pro\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"content\">\n          <h3>Become a PowerPoint Pro With the <strong>BIWS PowerPoint & VBA Course<\/strong><\/h3>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"full_text\">\n    \t<ul>\n        \t<li>\n            \t<h4>Become a presentation machine<\/h4>\n             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id=\"Lesson_Outline\"><\/span>Lesson Outline<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>You often use company profiles in pitch books and other presentations in investment banking to highlight potential buyers and sellers \u2013 which companies might be interested in buying or selling, and what do their financial profiles look like?<\/p>\n<p>Short profiles are fairly simple to create, but in longer profiles (2 pages or beyond), sometimes you run into alignment problems when there are multiple graphs or charts within a single \u201cbox\u201d or area of the slide, and you need to distribute them properly.<\/p>\n<p>It won\u2019t work correctly if you select smaller shapes and attempt to align them to the middle or center or distribute them using the built-in commands \u2013 instead, you have to create fake \u201creference lines\u201d on both sides of the shape across which you\u2019re distributing the smaller shapes.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, we create those lines around the blue text box and around the text labels below it.<\/p>\n<p>With those lines (Alt, N, SH to create a shape) in place, you can then select those lines, the smaller shapes you want to distribute, and then distribute everything horizontally (Alt, H, G, A, H) or vertically (Alt, H, G, A, V).<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you will have to align these \u201cfake lines\u201d to the left, right, top or bottom of shapes to get the proper alignment (Alt, H, G, A, L for Left, R for Right, T for Top, and B for Bottom).<\/p>\n<p>You can do this multiple times for as many shapes or areas as you need \u2013 afterward, you always finish off the exercise by deleting the lines since you don\u2019t want to see them in the final version of the slides.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: Taylor Croonquist from Nuts and Bolts Training came up with this trick and called these lines \u201cNinja Lines.\u201d Here, we\u2019re just showing you how to apply the lines to investment banking-style presentations.<\/p>\n<p>Note: Also, in our (new) PowerPoint course, we recommend customizing the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) to create your own shortcuts for common commands.<\/p>\n<p>We SKIPPED that here because it\u2019s outside the scope of this tutorial, but in real life you would use shorter shortcuts for all these commands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ll learn tricks for achieving normally impossible alignments and distributions in this tutorial, and you\u2019ll see several examples of slides for company profiles that you could use in pitch books and other 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