Stay in line with gridlines in PowerPoint for Mac

(Originally posted May 12, 2022 By ~ Eleanor Huynh)

Hi Insiders! I’m Eleanor Huynh, a Product Manager on the PowerPoint team. I’m excited to announce that gridlines are now available in PowerPoint for Mac, making it easier than ever to align objects in your presentations!

Grid lines in PowerPoint for Mac

The popular Gridlines feature that you love in PowerPoint for Windows is now available on Mac. This handy feature applies a dotted grid to your slides and provides visual cues to help you align shapes, images, text boxes, and more as you create your slides.

How it works

Ready to try out gridlines in PowerPoint for Mac?

1. Open an existing presentation on Mac OS and select the slides.
2. to see Select a tab Grid lines Check box.

   Gridlines checkbox on the View tab of the Ribbon

   A grid appears across the slide.

   Grid lines on slides in PowerPoint for Mac

3. To hide the grid lines, clear: Grid lines box.

Scenarios to try

• Grid lines help you align all the images in your presentation in the same position across all slides.
• Create two text boxes on your slide and align them vertically or horizontally.

Tips and Tricks

Another way to access this feature:

1. Open an existing presentation and select a slide that contains both text and visual elements.
2. Right click on the slide and select Grid and Guides > Grid lines From the context menu.

   Right-click on a slide to access the grid menu.

effectiveness

We’re rolling out grid lines in PowerPoint to Office Insiders on Mac using Beta Channel version 16.62 (Build 22050804) or later.

Features are released over time to ensure everything works smoothly. They are released slowly to a larger number of Insiders, highlighting features you may not have. Sometimes we remove elements based on your feedback to make them even better. This is rare, but we also have the option to completely remove a feature from the product, even if you, as an Insider, had the opportunity to try it out.

feedback

I’d like to hear from you! Go to: help > feedback Let us know what you think about this feature in PowerPoint.

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