When drawing guides are on, objects will snap to these lines when dragged within a threshold of a few pixels. To show drawing guides on your screen, under Guide settings, check the Display drawing guides on screen box.ĭrawing guides are a pair of dotted guidelines, one vertical and one horizontal, that intersect at the center of the slide. To temporarily override the snap-to options, hold down Alt while you're dragging an object on the slide. If you want the current settings in the Grid and Guides dialog box to be the default settings for all presentations you open, select Set as Default. Make these settings the default for all presentations Select View, and in the Show group, select the dialog box launcher. To change the measurement units in PowerPoint, see Change the ruler units from inches to centimeters. To see the grid on your screen, under Grid settings, check the Display grid on screen box.
To position shapes or objects to the closest intersection of the grid, under Snap to, check the Snap objects to grid box. Select View on the ribbon, and in the Show group, select the dialog-box launcher.
