Microsoft KB Archive/62795

PowerPoint 2.00 Help: Aligning and Cropping PSS ID Number: Q62795 Article last modified on 09-25-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

2.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

The information below is taken from the PowerPoint version 2.00 Help file for aligning and cropping.

To align objects:


 * 1) Choose Show Guides from the Draw menu. The two dotted guides appear.
 * 2) Drag the guides to the position where you want to align objects.
 * 3) Drag the objects to the guides. The edges and centers of the objects “stick” to the guides for easy alignment.

The numbers on the guides measure the distance from the center of the slide or notes page. Turn off the guides by choosing Hide Guides on the Draw menu.

Pictures (artwork from another program or PowerPoint objects Pasted as a Picture) may be cropped to reduce the visible part.

To crop a picture:


 * 1) Select the object.
 * 2) Choose Crop Picture from the Edit menu. The pointer changes to a cropping tool.
 * 3) Put the pointer on one of the picture’s resize handles (which are now for cropping, not resizing) and drag. The picture is cropped from the corner inward.

To “un-crop” a picture, repeat the process, except drag outward.

For more information about this topic, refer to Pages 37-39, 173-175, and 182-183 of your “Microsoft PowerPoint User’s Guide.”

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.