Setting Gridlines to Thirds

[Joel B. Kohm]

Is there a simple way of dividing a slide into thirds vertically and
horizontally to aid in design. The gridlines don't seem amenable to that
type of division. The best I've come up with is to insert and distribute
evenly 2 vertical and 2 horizontal lines, but it's a chore to do that for
each slide.

Joel B. Kohm

 

[Sonia]

Try using Guides instead. Go to View > Grids and Guides and set it to display
drawing guides. That gives you 1 horizontal and 1 vertical guide that can be
dragged wherever you want. But, if you hold down the Ctrl key and click and
drag a guide, you can clone it. Make three each and drag them to wherever you
like. If you have the Ruler set to "On", it will help in the placement.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[Sonia]

Sort of. If you open the template and create your presentation from it, it will
retain the guides. But if you open a new Blank presentation and then *apply*
the "content template", the guides from the template are lost.