The problem with designing any presentation is deciding what assets to include. If it’s just text, it’s just boring, so you’ll want to think about images and shapes. What happens when you want to re-organize your content? If you want to keep things together, the best thing to do is to group your assets, making it easy to move them without changing their position relative to one another. Thankfully, you can easily group things together in Google Slides. This guide will show you how.
How to Group Things in Google Slides
There are two main ways to select the elements that you want to group in Google Slides. We’ll take a look at both options.
Using Click and Drag
If you want to quickly select multiple things that are all within a similar space, or you want to group every object in your slide, you can click and drag to select them. To group things in Google Slides using click and drag: Your objects are now all grouped. If you click and drag any of the objects that you have grouped, all of the objects will move as one.
Grouping Items by Selecting Them Individually
If you don’t want to group everything, and some of the things you don’t want to include are positioned among those things you do want to group, then the click and drag method alone won’t work. You’ll need to select, or deselect, some objects by clicking them. To group things in Google Slides by clicking:
Changing the Order of Objects in Google Slides
You may find that you are unable to click on some items using the method above, because they are underneath other larger transparent objects. In this case, you’ll need to change the order of the objects. To change the order of objects in Google Slides:
How to Ungroup Things in Google Slides
If you decide that you want to change the position of some of the objects in your group, you’ll need to ungroup them first. To ungroup things in Google Slides:
Your objects are now ungrouped and can be moved and edited individually.
Making Google Slides Presentations
Google Slides has plenty of features that make it a worthy alternative to PowerPoint and other presentation software. Now you know how to group things on Google Slides, you can learn how to create a Google Slides template so you’re not reinventing the wheel. You can also apply transitions and animations to your slides, and even add a GIF to your Google Slides. Comment Name * Email *
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