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This happens when you are trying to group placeholders on a slide with other slide objects. Placeholders are special objects on a slide that are part of the slide layout. For example in a conventional bulleted slide, the title and text box are often placeholders, and these cannot be grouped with other inserted slide objects like shapes, pictures, or charts. Similarly, there are other grouping problems you may run into while using PowerPoint.
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Troubleshooting Grouping in PowerPoint 2007, 2003, and 2002
Tutorial Code: 06 06 06
Previous: 06 06 05 Dynamic Reorder of Overlapping Shapes in PowerPoint
Next: 06 06 07 Troubleshooting Ungrouping in PowerPoint
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With many objects, your slide may end up looking crowded, and that’s certainly something you do not want to happen. At times though, your slide may appear cluttered even if you really do not have too many objects, and this can happen because the objects are not spaced out well in relation to each other.
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Space Objects Equally in PowerPoint 2013
Tutorial Code: 06 05 04
Previous: 06 05 03 Distribute Shapes in PowerPoint
Next: 06 06 01 Group, Ungroup, and Regroup Shapes in PowerPoint
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Tagged as: 06-05, Aligning and Distributing Shapes, PowerPoint Tutorials, Shapes
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We have already shown you how to align shapes in PowerPoint. However for alignment to work, you need to have more than one shape (or any other slide object) selected so that they can align with each other. However, you may want to align just one shape (or even a single group of shapes) to the exact center of your slide.
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The fact that the SmartArt allows so much customization in PowerPoint by applying new colors or styles means that your SmartArt graphic may be not quite the same as PowerPoint’s default offering. If you do have the need to undo all of the customizations, you can do so by restoring the default layout and colors of the entire SmartArt graphic using the Reset option.
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Reset SmartArt Graphics in PowerPoint 2010
Reset SmartArt Graphics in PowerPoint 2011
Tutorial Code: 11 03 10
Previous: 11 03 09 Get More SmartArt Graphics in PowerPoint
Next: 11 04 01 Insert an Organization Chart in PowerPoint
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You have already learned about Dynamic Reordering of shapes, where all slides objects are placed in an individual layered view suitable for reordering. This may work well when you have a few objects on your slide but is entirely unpractical if your slide has anything over 10 objects. Fortunately, there is a variation of this technique that lets you only work with the selected slide objects and any other slide objects that overlap the selection.
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.
Dynamic Reorder of Overlapping Shapes in PowerPoint 2011
Tutorial Code: 06 06 05
Previous: 06 06 04 Dynamic Reordering of Shapes in PowerPoint
Next: 06 06 06 Troubleshooting Grouping in PowerPoint
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