Group, Nudge, and Reorder Shapes: Dynamic Reorder of Overlapping Shapes in PowerPoint

Created: Monday, August 2, 2021, posted by Geetesh at 12:08 pm

Updated: Tuesday, July 4, 2023 at 4:32 pm

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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.

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Dynamic Reorder of Overlapping Shapes in PowerPoint 2011

Dynamic Reorder of Overlapping Shapes in PowerPoint

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