Align and arrange objects on a page

The added autoshapes, images, charts or text boxes can be aligned, grouped and ordered on a page. To perform any of these actions, first select a separate object or several objects on the page. 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 Layout 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 icon at the Layout 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 page,
• Align Center - to line up the object(s) horizontally by the center of the page,
• Align Right - to line up the object(s) horizontally by the right side of the page,
• Align Top - to line up the object(s) vertically by the top side of the page,
• Align Middle - to line up the object(s) vertically by the middle of the page,
• Align Bottom - to line up the object(s) vertically by the bottom side of the page.

Group objects

To group two or more selected objects or ungroup them, click the arrow next to the Group icon at the Layout 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.

Alternatively, you can right-click the selected objects, choose the Arrange option from the contextual menu and then use the Group or Ungroup option.

Arrange objects

To arrange objects (i.e. to change their order when several objects overlap each other), you can use the Bring Forward and Send Backward icons at the Layout tab of the top toolbar and select the necessary arrangement type from the list.

To move the selected object(s) forward, click the arrow next to the Bring Forward icon at the Layout 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,
• Bring Forward - to move the selected object(s) by one level forward as related to other objects.

To move the selected object(s) backward, click the arrow next to the Send Backward icon at the Layout tab of the top toolbar and select the necessary arrangement type from the list:

• Send To Background - to move the object(s) behind all other objects,
• Send Backward - to move the selected object(s) by one level backward as related to other objects.