Genuine Office 2010 Key Information

My identify is Christopher Maloney, and I joined the PowerPoint crew in August.  I will be taking over day-to-day management of the PowerPoint Team blog following the long and distinguished stewardship of Ric Bretschneider. Ric isn’t going anywhere, of course, and he will still post.  I’ll just be handling the daily operations of the weblog. Over the next few months you’ll see posts from myself and from many of the other members of the PowerPoint team.
I’ve been using PowerPoint for years, and for me it is software with which I can fabricate any presentation imaginable.  In fact, I sometimes use the program to create things that aren’t presentations at all.  My favorite example would be the time I used PowerPoint to produce the scene breaks in a home-made kung fu documentary.
Now that I’m helping to engineer PowerPoint, I use it every single day. Most of the time I’m working with an internal, unfinished version that includes the new features that we’re developing for the next release. However,Office Professional, it’s often necessary to run PowerPoint 2007 (the current release) so that I can fully understand the behavior to which users have become accustomed, and to check backwards compatibility of the new functionality. Regardless of the version, there are a variety of features that I never knew about until I started building new ones and improving old ones. Even advanced users are sometimes unaware of great features, simply because PowerPoint is so flexible and offers so many. Sometimes there are even multiple ways of achieving the same result, and exploring the other options isn’t always the top priority.
For example, when creating a diagram or drawing, I’ve often tried to align objects on a slide only to find that when I nudge the object around, it jumps too far and never lands where I want it to land. Using the mouse to drag the object results in the same coarse movement behavior,Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, regardless of how much I zoom. The reason for this behavior is that, by default, objects on the slide are constrained to a grid. In the past, I would have disabled the grid altogether, which would allow me all the precision I need to bring my vision of a perfect diagram into fruition.
I’ve often wondered, why would anyone want the grid in the first place? Now that I’ve had a chance to discuss this with the PowerPoint staff, I understand the logic behind the decision to enable the grid by default. Most people create very simple drawings, and the alignment and spatial distribution of objects are most important in the majority of these situations. So,Office 2010 Pro Plus Key, for the majority of drawings, the grid-based design is a good solution. It’s only once in a while that you run into this issue where you need to place something off the grid.
Lucky for us,Genuine Office 2010, this once in a while case was not disregarded in the design. You don’t have to turn off the grid every time you encounter a situation where the grid is too imprecise. Here are a couple of extremely valuable keys that are guaranteed to come in handy when you are dragging shapes around on a slide:
   
Toggle the grid
As in, disable grid while the Alt button is down

Copy an object to a new location
Instead of moving the original

Constrain object movement to the X or Y axis
Can combine with Alt, Ctrl,Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007, or both

 
You don’t have to memorize this list. Just remember that you can use Shift, Ctrl, and Alt when you drag. If you forget which is which, just try one. It’s easy to undo, and pretty soon you’ll use them without thinking. can also use these modifier keys when you are moving objects around with the arrow keys. The keys have different mappings, which you can discover through experimentation.  In short, Alt rotates the object, Ctrl turns off the grid, and Shift changes the scale of the object.  you are using a Mac, you can play too.  In Mac PowerPoint, the keys are mapped out so that they spatially match those in the Windows version.  When dragging with the mouse, the Apple key toggles the grid, the Option key duplicates the object, and the Shift key constrains the axis of object movement.  The Ctrl key is necessarily reserved for right click (context click), since many Macs ship with a single mouse button.
The bottom line: try the modifier keys, they are very powerful.
Good luck, and have fun.
-Christopher Maloney
May 20, 2009