1. Using Static Guides In Power Point 2011 For Macs
2. Using Static Guides In Power Point 2011 For Mac
3. Using Static Guides In Power Point 2011 For Mac Os

Excel 2016 for Mac PowerPoint 2016 for Mac Word 2016 for Mac Word for Mac 2011 Excel for Mac 2011 PowerPoint for Mac 2011 More. Support for Office 2016 for Mac ended on October 13, 2020. Upgrade to Microsoft 365 to work anywhere from any device and continue to receive support. Make sure that your Static guides are visible. If not, you can use the Ctrl + Option + Command + G shortcut keys to turn them on (and toggle them off). Other than the two default horizontal and vertical Static guides, go ahead and add two more guides as shown in Figure 1.

Like rulers, guides in PowerPoint allow you to position and snap your slideobjects in place. When you enable guides in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac, you see one horizontaland one vertical guide, as shown in Figure 1 below. Typically, these guides are blue in color.

Figure 1: Guides on PowerPoint slide

To enable these guides, you choose the View | Guides | Static Guides optionthat you can see in Figure 2 (the second option in the highlighted red box).

Using Static Guides In Power Point 2011 For Macs

Figure 2: Static and Dynamic Guides options

As you can see in Figure 2 above, the Guides sub-menu provides options to enable two typesof guides: Dynamic and Static, you already saw how Static guides look like in Figure 1, previously on this page.Dynamic guides on the other hand are not visible all the time. We will explore them later in this tutorial.

Using Static Guides In Power Point 2011 For Mac

By default the guides may not be enabled on your slide. Enabling them though can help while working with positioning any ofyour slide objects. Also, if you need to position certain objects at the same position on successive slides, guides can be anamazing help! In subsequent tutorials, we will explore techniques that help you work with guides, or even create new guides. Inthis tutorial, you will learn how to get started with these two types of guides in PowerPoint 2011:

Dynamic Guides

1. Launch PowerPoint 2011. Typically, the program opens a new presentation with a blank slide as shown in Figure 3 below. As youcan see, there are no guides visible by default.
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   Figure 3: Default PowerPoint interface with no guides visible
2. To make the Dynamic guides visible, select the View | Guides | Dynamic Guides menuoption as shown in Figure 4.
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   Figure 4: Dynamic Guides option within the Guides sub-menu
3. Even though the Dynamic guides are enabled now, you won't be able to see them on your slide. But, when you are working withsome slide object(s), for example, when you move shapes from oneplace to another within the Slide Area, you can see Dynamic guidesmaking an appearance, as shown in Figure 5, below:
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   Figure 5: Dynamic guides appear only when moving the slide objects in the slide area
4. To disable the Dynamic guides, select the View | Guides | Dynamic Guidesmenu option again so that this option is unchecked.

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Static Guides

1. To enable Static guides, select the View | Guides | Static Guides menuoption as shown in Figure 6.
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   Figure 6: Static Guides option within the Guides sub-menu
2. Now, you can see the Static guides displayed on the slide as shown in Figure 7.
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   Figure 7: Static Guides visible on the PowerPoint 2011 slide
3. These guides will be visible on all presentations you open hereafter, until you hide them by selecting theView | Guides | Static Guides menu option again to uncheck it.