# Align and arrange objects on a slide

The added autoshapes, images, charts or text boxes can be aligned, grouped, ordered, distributed horizontally and vertically on a slide. To perform any of these actions, first select a separate object or several objects in the slide editing area. To select several objects, hold down the Ctrl key and left-click the necessary objects. To select a text box, click on its border, not the text within it. After that you can use either the icons at the Home tab of the top toolbar described below or the analogous options from the right-click menu.

### Align objects

To align the selected object(s), click the Align shape icon at the Home tab of the top toolbar and select the necessary alignment type from the list:

- Align Left - to line up the object(s) horizontally by the left side of the slide,
- Align Center - to line up the object(s) horizontally by the center of the slide,
- Align Right - to line up the object(s) horizontally by the right side of the slide,
- Align Top - to line up the object(s) vertically by the top side of the slide,
- Align Middle - to line up the object(s) vertically by the middle of the slide,
- Align Bottom - to line up the object(s) vertically by the bottom side of the slide.

To distribute two or more selected objects horizontally or vertically, click the Align shape icon at the Home tab of the top toolbar and select the necessary distribution type from the list:

- Distribute Horizontally - to align the selected objects by their centers (from right to left edges) to the horizontal center of the slide
- Distribute Vertically - to align the selected objects by their centers (from top to bottom edges) to the vertical center of the slide.

### Arrange objects

To arrange the selected object(s) (i.e. to change their order when several objects overlap each other), click the Arrange shape icon at the Home tab of the top toolbar and select the necessary arrangement type from the list:

- Bring To Foreground - to move the object(s) in front of all other objects,
- Send To Background - to move the object(s) behind all other objects,
- Bring Forward - to move the selected object(s) by one level forward as related to other objects.
- Send Backward - to move the selected object(s) by one level backward as related to other objects.

To group two or more selected objects or ungroup them, click the Arrange shape icon at the Home tab of the top toolbar and select the necessary option from the list:

- Group - to join several objects into a group so that they can be simultaneously rotated, moved, resized, aligned, arranged, copied, pasted, formatted like a single object.
- Ungroup - to ungroup the selected group of the previously joined objects.