Gridlines On Powerpoint For Mac 2011
Like rulers, guides in PowerPoint allow you to position and snap your slide objects in place. When you enable guides in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac, you see one horizontal and one vertical guide. Typically, these guides are blue in color. To enable these guides, you choose the View Guides Static Guides option. Here you can specify the grid options, which are very useful for designers, for example you can check the Display smart guides when shapes are aligned or display drawing guides on the screen, but if you want to change a different grid spacing only then you can edit the Spacing value in inches and choose any other spacing value instead.
Powerpoint Gridlines Spacing
As we explored in our earlier Chart Gridlinesin PowerPoint 2011 for Mac tutorial, PowerPoint 2011 only shows Horizontal MajorGridlines on the chart, as shown in Figure 1, below. Yes, you can enable Vertical Gridlines too, and more importantly you can formatthese Gridlines to appear exactly as you want them to show. In this tutorial, we will look at these format options.
Figure 1: Chart showing default status of Gridlines
Both the Horizontal and Vertical Gridlines contain two sets of Gridlines: Major and Minor asexplained in our Chart Gridlines in PowerPoint2011 for Mac tutorial. By default, all Gridlines may be grey in color and possess a predefined weight (thickness). You can change their colorand weight, and also add arrow-heads to their edges. Also, you can add effects such as Shadows, Glows, andSoft Edges. Follow these steps to learn more:
Gridlines On Powerpoint For Mac 2011 Mac
- Select the chart that you want to format the Gridlines for. If you don't have a chart,insert a chart.
- Now, select either the Chart Layout or the Format tab of theRibbon. Both of these tabs contain the Current Selectiongroup that you can see in Figure 2 towards the extreme left. Within this group, you can see the Chart Elementsselection box (highlighted in red within Figure 2). This selection box contains a list ofelements in the selected chart. Within this list, click onthe name of the Gridline that you want to format. In Figure 2 you can see the Vertical (Value) Axis Major Gridlinesoption selected. Now you can see a tick mark prefixed to this option, as shown in Figure 2 to indicate its selected status.
Figure 2: Vertical (Value) Axis Major Gridlines option selected
Below this Current Selection list is the Format Selection button, as shown highlighted inred within Figure 3. Click this button.
Figure 3: Format Selection button
Alternatively, carefully right-click (or Ctrl+click) a Gridline, from the contextual menu that appears, selectthe Format Gridlines option as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Format Gridlines option selected - Either way, you summon the Format Gridlines dialog box, as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5: Format Gridlines dialog box
In this dialog box, the options within the sidebar help you to format the Gridlines. Let us explore each of them as marked inFigure 5, above. For more information on each of these options, refer to the tutorials linked. Even though theselinked tutorials are related to Shapes, the same techniques work with Gridlines too:A. Line
Selecting this option will bring up three tabs, Solid, Gradient, andWeight & Arrow as shown highlighted in red within Figure 5, above. With the helpof options within these tabs you can:- Change the color of the Gridlines.
- Apply Gradient fill for Gridlines.
- Change the thickness of the Gridlines and add arrow heads to them.
B. Shadow
Adds a shadow effect to the Gridlines. When you select this option, initially you will see that alloptions are greyed out except the Shadow check-box, select this check-box as shown highlighted in redwithin Figure 6 to activate all options, so that you can add a shadow to the Gridlines and format it as required.
Figure 6: Shadow options within the Format Gridlines dialog box
Learn more about the Shadow options in our Advanced Shadow Effect Options inPowerPoint 2011 for Mac tutorial.C. Glow & Soft Edges
Glow effect adds a nice halo around the selected Gridlines whereas Soft Edges effectadds an eaten-up, feathered edge to the Gridlines. Select any of the options that you can see in Figure 7,as required.
Figure 7: Glow & Soft Edges options within the Format Gridlines dialog box
Get more info on how toApply Glow Effects to Shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac andApply Soft-Edges to Shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. - Select the required options and format the Gridlines as required. In Figure 8, you can see our samplechart with formatted Gridlines, notice that we have also added arrow-heads to Gridlines (compare with the chart in Figure1).
Figure 8: Chart with formatted Gridlines - Save your presentation often.
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