PowerPoint: 21 align speed tricks you never knew

Everyone knows you get the red dotted lines as you move objects across the slide to align, but there are many other ways to align in complex ways, check out my video on 21 ways you never align, if you master these (maybe not all but some) it will make your entire PowerPoint experience so much faster. Whether you're looking to align multiple objects, make images the same size, align in a grid formation, across slides, diagonally, align as you duplicate. I've got many tricks here to make you a PowerPoint alignment & speed master
Align, distribute evenly, straight, diagonal, across slides, resize evenly, align in a 3x2 grid, align text in multiple columns, vertically and many more methods!
0:00 Intro
0:36 Align & distribute tool
1:14 Resize shapes equally
2:53 Resize/crop images equally
3:31 Reset placeholders
4:12 Align across all slides with slide master
4:55 Copy across slides & align
5:25 Align anything across slides with Thor Add-In
6:22 Ctrl Shift-drag copy trick
7:17 Align & distribute diagonally with duplicate trick
8:06 Align to specific part inside an image
9:07 Smart guides/disable
9:47 Use the grid
10:18 Create custom guides
10:56 Ungroup icons then align
11:37 Align shapes in grid layout
12:36 Align images in grid layout
13:44 Align images with design ideas AI
14:20 Align text shortcuts
14:55 Make text stop resizing
15:48 Align icon in circle
16:23 Stack text

[@anillpatel]

Fantastic video presentation for anyone who wants to improve their PowerPoint Skills.
Thanks for sharing David.

[@learnspreadsheets]

Thanks so much! Glad you like it 😃 i have a similar Word one that I just launched!

[@squareggs]

This was amazing, so thorough, well thought out, really appreciate all the new tips and tricks I have. Thank you ⭐️

[@learnspreadsheets]

Thanks for saying! Lovely to read this feedback!

[@eurbanautotech]

I feel like there is a lot more than just 21 tricks in this video. I also feel like this would be 10+ videos on most other channels. When each idea is a separate 3-5 minute video you lose the ability to compare ideas and figure out how, when and where they are useful. Back in the day we used to have reference material. Quick overviews of a whole bunch of material to give you a sampling of what's available. Then you can decide which ideas you like and want to investigate further. I feel like this sorta stuff is sorely missing nowadays. I took a lot of classes that heavily used Microsoft Office products when I was in high school/college 20+ years ago... I still use Word occasionally so I'm okay with that, I use Excel all the time so I'm solid with that, but I haven't touched PowerPoint in 20+ years... I only JUST found a need for it. It's been frustrating and slow going to say the least... But this video has been refreshingly helpful. Thank you. I'm sure I will reference it many times! (I've been doing a lot of this manually one object at a time...)
This gets a Like&Subscribe from me!

[@learnspreadsheets]

Thanks so much for this, it’s very kind & I’m glad you find it useful! It’s a brain dump of the tricks I use & some I use less regularly so I like to get it people more efficiently, but as you say some are good for certain people & others are good for other people.

[@bernafeserra1898]

Great help

[@karavidov]

Cool video - on resizing objects, I like to Ctrl + click multiple objects and enter the desired size in Shape Format to get them uniform, rather than copy-pasting.

[@learnspreadsheets]

Yesss! So true. Glad you like it!

[@manishramesh9344]

Awesome !!! Just Loved it

[@learnspreadsheets]

Thanks so much! Glad you did

[@mukeshrawat326]

Thanku So Much....🙏

[@learnspreadsheets]

No problem! Glad you enjoyed it

[@vipulsuthar3796]

Thankss!!

[@learnspreadsheets]

Thanks!!

[@pratikgautam21]

Hi David, Thanks for useful information. I have one query, I have 4 images in a slide, I want them to be of equal size (Height and Width), and they should be distributed uniformly on a complete slide like placed in four quadrant.

[@learnspreadsheets]

Hi easiest way for that is select pictures & go to picture format tab then choose « picture layout » you have some flexibility with which layout you want & you can change what it crops out too

[@SKMRify]

Wonderful info.

[@learnspreadsheets]

Thanks! Glad you find it useful 😃

[@anilsinghspeaks]

Superrb

[@learnspreadsheets]

Glad you like that!

[@paulyearde3860]

I want to understand PowerPoint more

[@learnspreadsheets]

Haha yeah there’s so much to it! Check the other videos on my channel to learn more!

[@ltoby2400]

I guess this is not for beginners

[@learnspreadsheets]

It’s aimed at regular PowerPoint users, but there are many tricks that could benefit beginners too!