If you’re working in PowerPoint, and you want the slide number to display on the slide, the process is generally simple: Go to the Insert tab. Click the Slide Number button. On the Slide tab, check the Slide Number box. Click Apply to All to make the slide number show on all slides, or Apply [...]
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Measurement in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Sometimes when working on a document or slide or spreadsheet, seeing the ruler helps you design. Other times, it just takes up screen space. In Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, you can select to view or hide the ruler (although in Excel it’s only available in Page Layout view). Show or Hide Ruler in Office 2007 and [...]
Distribute Objects Evenly – No Math, No Grid
This week’s post goes hand in hand with last week’s Align Objects Without a Grid post. If you’ve ever needed to spread objects (shapes, pictures, graphs) evenly across a slide or page, you’ll love the Distribute tools on the Align button. They’re available in PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and Excel. They allow you to distribute objects evenly, either [...]
Align Objects Without a Grid
For a long time I thought the only way to align shapes or pictures in PowerPoint and other programs was to turn on the grid and painstakingly move objects to align perfectly to a gridline. I caused myself a lot of unnecessary work that way. PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and Excel all have a built in Align [...]


