Microsoft Word 2008 Mac Snap To Grid
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If the Snap objects to grid box is checked, you can draw in straight lines when you draw a freeform shape. Show or hide gridlines in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel. (This feature is available in PowerPoint 2019 for Mac and PowerPoint for Office 365 for Mac.) Expand your Office skills Explore training. Get new features first Join.
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- Turn on the snap-to options Select View on the ribbon, and in the Show group, select the dialog-box launcher. The Grid and Guides dialog box appears. To position shapes or objects to the closest intersection of the grid, under Snap to, check the Snap objects to grid box.
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Summary
The grid and guides features help you line up text and objects while creating Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. This article tells you how to use keyboard shortcuts to quickly turn these features off and on.
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The keyboard shortcuts for the grid and guides in PowerPoint 2002 are:||||------------|------------||Display Grid and Guides dialog box|CTRL+G||Show or hide grid|SHIFT+F9||Show or hide guides|ALT+F9||Turn snap-to grid option on or off|CTRL+SHIFT+F9|
The keyboard shortcuts for the grid and guides in PowerPoint 2007 are:
| Show or hide grid | SHIFT+F9 |
| Show or hide guides | ALT+F9 |
| Turn snap-to grid option on or off | CTRL+SHIFT+F9 |
Does anyone know how to turn off snap to grid in Microsoft Word for Mac 2004? I am trying to move text boxes and they just keep jumping around and will not line up the way I want them to because of some stupid snap to grid type thing.
It sounds like it would be something people would really like to do doesn't it, moving a text box just a little bit. But no, Microsoft insists on using some stupid snap to grid type thing to make the text box jump about a centimeter, instead of the odd millimeter.
Is there a stupid snap to grid type thing involved here? If so, which pile of windows do I have to plough through to find the one check box - which I never checked in the first place - to uncheck it and turn of the stupid snap to grid type thing?
No hurry. I've given up work for today and gone home to watch TV with the intention of buying iWork tomorrow. But I'd still like to know the answer, if there is one.
Cheers,
Martin
PS. I wonder how many man hours are lost at work because of Windows.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
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