Editing Objects in PowerPoint 2016
During this Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 training tutorial video, you will learn some techniques of editing objects in your PowerPoint presentation like resize, rotate, copy, and so on. You will also learn how to delete objects and how to duplicate objects easily. Other equally significant things being discussed here are shape fill, shape outline, and dashes.
Okay welcome back to PowerPoint 2016. This is module six where we’re talking about how to work with objects. Now this is section two where I’m going to show you a couple things about how to edit your objects. There’s going to be times when you want to change your size of your object. Maybe you want to rotate it, delete it, copy it. Those are things that are considered editing. So I want to show you how to work with those.
Okay so first of all a real quick little selecting technique that we didn’t talk about in section one. But if you want to select everything this is your general across the board in any of your Office products how you select everything. Hold down the Control key and hit the letter A. That’s your select all. So just remember that. Anything you do now is going to affect all of your objects. So I’m going to go ahead and just deselect that.
Now let’s talk first of all about deleting objects because I’ve got so many of them here that I want to go ahead and just get rid of a few of them.
So all I’m going to do is select an object and just hit Delete on the keyboard. That’s all you have to do. That would the same thing for a slide by the way. So if you happen to be over here and you’re clicked on let’s just say slide two, for example. You could right click and then you have the option to delete a slide or you could just hit Delete on the keyboard. So just remember that.
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Alright I’m going back to slide four. So let me delete one more. I’m going to delete this line. So see how I select the line and I get the control handles on the end. I’m going to delete that one. And then I’ll go ahead and delete the smiley face here.
Okay now we’ve got a few objects we can kind of work with. Now if I select and object you’re going to see the control handles we’ve been talking about on the corners and also on the sides here. And remember, those allow you to change the size of your object. So if you get in a corner you can move two borders at once.
If you get on the top or the bottom you can make it look like this or like this. So really this object can become any size that you want it to be. And remember if you want to move an object just click in the middle of it and hold your mouse and just drag it. That’s going to allow you to move it. Now you might have also noticed there’s this little arrow right up here. It looks like a round swirly arrow.
Now what that’s for is if you wanted to rotate your object. So see if you just put your mouse on it and hold you can drag and rotate this object. So you can rotate all the way round if that’s what you wanted to do. But it can be anywhere you want it to be.
Now keep in mind when you have more than one object selected anything you do is going to affect both of those objects or all the ones you have selected. Okay? So if you’re trying to affect one just click on that one.
Now let’s talk for a minute about copying objects.
I want to make a copy of this object right here and I could just draw another one but it’d be kind of hard for me to get it the exact same size. Now you can right click and copy is one of your choices. That’s certainly okay. Some people prefer to use the keyboard shortcuts. Control-C is your copy. Control-V is your paste, V as in Victor.
But here’s a little trick that’ll help you out, a little faster sometimes. If you’re holding down the Control key on your keyboard and you click and drag your object. Let go of the mouse first and then you’ll have two of them exactly alike. So that’s very helpful. Hold the Control key, drag the object and let go of your mouse first. If you end up letting go of the Control key first you’ll end up just moving it. So just kind of know that. Now I’m going to delete this one that I just set up here.
Okay now one more quick thing I want to show you and this looks really good with the star, for example. Let me move some of this other stuff out of the way and get rid of it.
Now I’m going to show you how to do something called duplicating. And this will work with any object. If you hold the Control key and hit the letter D and you can hit the letter D as many times as you want. D stands for duplicate. Notice now I’ve duplicated these stars. Let me move this banner all the way here.
So now if I wanted to do something like line these up and I want to put them straight across, maybe group them so they’re one object. I can do all of those things because I have multiple objects.
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Now back to something we talked about in the first section, the selecting. Remember how I showed you about drawing the net? If I wanted to line these stars up across I could but I’d have to select them all first. And it’s very hard to do just holding the Control key. So if you draw your net like this, notice when I let go that all of the start are going to be selected. So now whatever I do next I’ll do with all of the stars.
So we’re going to talk about lining those up here in section four of this particular module so just kind of stay with me on that. But just kind of know how to duplicate any objects. I could duplicate this if I wanted to up here. Hold Control and hit the letter D. Okay? So just kind of know that.
Alright. So that’s a little bit about editing your objects. So we’re going to move on and talk now about actually formatting those objects.
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!
