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Align objects using the Arrange tool

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Align objects using the Arrange tool

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- [Instructor] Remember this slide. Well watch how quickly I can make a professional looking slide from these three updates that look like they were just dumped on the screen. Instead of the old vertical bulleted list that used to be so popular, let's make a nice horizontal display and end by putting icons over them. It's a technique that's called chunking and the icons are right in PowerPoint. You don't even need your own graphics. The first thing I'm going to do is select each text box. And another way to do that, instead of clicking and dragging, is to hold the shift key down while clicking each one. And now that they're all selected, all I have to do is resize one of them and all three of them are going to follow. So I can click and drag on a corner with my mouse to resize them, and I will let go and might make them a bit wider, so they're all at least three lines. Now, I could try to line them up manually. For…

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