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

Created: Friday, July 30, 2021, posted by Geetesh at 2:40 pm

Updated: Friday, October 14, 2022 at 11:16 am

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Although you can change the order of shapes or any other slide objects using the conventional Send to Back and Bring to Front options in the Arrange gallery, you can do reordering in a much intuitive way in PowerPoint. We call this new technique Dynamic Reordering, and this works by dragging shapes to the required positions in a special reorder view.

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Dynamic Reordering of Shapes in PowerPoint 2011

Dynamic Reordering of Shapes in PowerPoint

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