Learn MS Word Legal: Selecting All The Pieces Of A Chart To Get The Benefit of Grouping in PowerPoint

In writing this article, I felt that rather than think of this as a trick of the trade as it is, it is actually more of a strategy. What is this about? You are working on a chart that was not composed with a "Preset" but one that you have placed together from scratch. At the moment, this PowerPoint chart is composed of independent pieces namely boxes, lines, arrows etc. The chart is presently off center and it is obscuring Footer material on the Slide. It has to be moved more towards the center and moved up and away from the Footer material. 1. If I click on 1 of the shapes and follow that with Control A, I can grab (select) all of the Shapes at once instead of selecting them 1 by 1. 2. Doing so, will also select the shapes that control the separate pieces of the footer so since I do not want to affect the Footer related pieces, "Shift Click" on those Footer related pieces to De-Select them. 3. Normally, one would want to go to Drawing Tools, Format and select Group and when the Chart is Grouped, it can then be manipulated as one solid piece. 4. This is the main point: if you are still working on the chart and don't want it to be Grouped at this point, you can simply select all the pieces as stated in 1 and 2 above, and tug it where you want or use your Control + North, South, East and West Control Keys to move the chart as needed in a more precise way. It will still respond as 1 solid piece and after you have re-positioned the chart, you can go about your business without having to Ungroup it in order to deal with each individual piece as needed. Just a little "piece" of knowledge that gives you a bit more insight when working with PowerPoint charts. MS Word 2007-16 Legal Training www.advanceto.com Answering Your Questions About Our Classes https://legaltestready.tumblr.com/post/167494259388/advanceto-ms-word-legal-for-2007-16-answering