Selecting Objects in PowerPoint 2016
During this Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 training tutorial video, we will discuss one of the most basic functions in PowerPoint, which is selecting objects. We will talk about how to select a single object or multiple objects and how to deselect an object.
Hi it’s Cindy. Welcome to module six. We’re in PowerPoint 2016 and we’re talking in this module about how to work with objects. Now remember that objects can be things that you drew. So they could be drawings. They could be pictures you put in. Objects can be a lot of different things. So let’s talk a little bit about how you select those objects because that’s going to be very important when you start doing anything else with objects.
Okay so we’re back in our presentation and we’re on slide four and this is the one where we had used our drawing tools right up here and we had drawn all these different shapes and things. Now we were just playing when we were on this slide so we have just objects and shapes all over the place. So let’s talk a little bit about how you actually select them.
So first of all if you wanted to select one object just click on that object. And you can see when you do that that you get your placeholder that appears around the object. Also you’re going to see your control handles and then we’ll talk a little bit more about this here in a moment. But just remember to select one object, click on that object.
Now if you have multiple objects you’d like to select and they’re just random on your screen hold down the Control key on the keyboard and just click on those additional objects you’d like to select. Now if you happen to get one you don’t want then just as long as you’re holding Control you can click back on that object and you’ll actually deselect that one. So just hold Control to randomly select objects.
Now sometimes you’re going to want to select objects that are actually kind of hard if you’re holding down Control. So here’s what I mean by that. Let’s say that I wanted to select this star and this banner. I could hold Control and click on each one but I can also do what’s called drawing a net. And let me show you how that works.
Now when you do this you can start in any corner. I’ll just start in the bottom right. And you’re not holding any keys on the keyboard. You’re just going to click the mouse. Now if I click the mouse and I just hold it the whole time and pretend like I’m drawing a box around these two objects like this then when I let go both objects are going to be selected. Now before I let go a couple quick things. Notice I am partially on the smiley face.
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That’s okay because as long as the total object is not included in your net then you’ll be fine. Also make sure you get every single piece of that object within your net. If I’m trying to select the star on the right here and I leave out the tip of one then it’s not going to be in my selection. Now I’m going to let go of the mouse and notice both of these objects are selected. Now deselecting is just clicking away from your object.
So let me give you another example. If I come up to the top here and just hold the mouse and draw a big box around these just like this notice that I’m going to have my star on the bottom right and the little lightning bolt on the top right in my selection. Also I’m going to have my “I am drawing objects” in my selection too. See that? So anything that was in that box is going to be part of my net and will be part of my selection. So just remember that. We’ll be using a lot of those selecting techniques as we go forward.
So now that you know how to select objects let’s briefly talk about how to edit an object. So that’s going to be over in the second section. I’ll see you shortly.
Simon Calder
Chris “Simon” Calder was working as a Project Manager in IT for one of Los Angeles’ most prestigious cultural institutions, LACMA.He taught himself to use Microsoft Project from a giant textbook and hated every moment of it. Online learning was in its infancy then, but he spotted an opportunity and made an online MS Project course - the rest, as they say, is history!
