To enhance your presentation, you can add text, shapes, lines, and other objects in Google Slides. Tip:To edit a presentation on a
touchscreen device, like a Pixel Book, double-tap the text box to start typing. Insert a diagram Important: You can insert a diagram in any language that uses the Latin alphabet.Add text or objects to a slide
Insert a text box or object
Arrange and align objects on a slide
Arrange objects
- On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
- Go to the slide where you want to arrange an object.
- At the top, click Arrange.
- Choose from the following options:
- Order: Put the object behind or in front of text, other objects, or images.
- Align: When you select multiple objects, you can align the edges of the objects.
- Distribute: When you select three or more objects, you can evenly distribute the space between them.
- Center on page: Center objects vertically or horizontally on a slide.
- Rotate: Change the orientation of an object.
- Group: Lock multiple objects together to make them easier to move around and format.
Align objects on a slide automatically
To easily align objects on a slide, click and drag any object where you want. There are two ways to align:
Show or hide rulers
You can show rulers on the canvas to help you place text or objects.
- On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
- Click View
Show ruler.
Add or remove guide lines
You can add guide lines to the canvas to help you place text and objects.
- On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
- Click View Guides. Choose an option.
- Drag the line where you want.
To remove a single line, right-click the line and click Delete guide.
To remove all guide lines, click View
Move, rotate, or change the size of an object
- On your computer, open a presentation in Google Slides.
- Go to the slide with the object or text box you want to change.
- Click the object or text box.
- In the menu at the top, click Format
Format options.
- At the right, click Size & Position.
- Make changes to the object or text box.
Tip: To keep the height and width proportions when you resize an object, click Lock aspect ratio.
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I recently needed to make a placeholder page for a site. I wanted the logo image to be centered exactly in the middle of the screen, that is, both vertically and horizontally centered. Quickly, I thought I’d just give the image element a class of “centered” and then style that class:
.centered { position: fixed; /* or absolute */ top: 50%; left: 50%; }But as I’m sure you are thinking, this doesn’t quite work. What that accomplishes is putting the upper left corner of image exactly in the center of the page, not the center of the image in the center of the page.
In order to get the image exactly centered, it’s a simple matter of applying a negative top margin of half the images height, and a negative left margin of half the images width. For this example, like so:
.centered { position: fixed; top: 50%; left: 50%; margin-top: -50px; margin-left: -100px; }That will do the trick:
This works wonderfully when you know the size of the thing you are centering. If you don’t know, or are thinking it might change and want to be future proof, try this:
.centered { position: fixed; top: 50%; left: 50%; /* bring your own prefixes */ transform: translate(-50%, -50%); }The translate value for transform is based off the size of the element, so that will center nicely.