Working with Slides: Guides in PowerPoint

Created: Wednesday, March 14, 2018, posted by Geetesh at 7:59 pm

Updated: Monday, October 10, 2022 at 10:23 am

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Like Gridlines, Guides also allow you to position and snap your slide objects in place. For most professional slide designers, creating slides without guides would be very worrisome! When guides are enabled for the first time within PowerPoint, you can just see two guides by default. These guides are two dotted lines, one horizontal and the other vertical. They span to intersect exactly at the center of the slide.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Guides in PowerPoint 2016

Guides in PowerPoint 2013

Guides in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Guides in PowerPoint 2016

Guides in PowerPoint 2011

Guides in PowerPoint

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