Will try with 2.3.1 and a more recent 2.4 when I have an opportunity. I believe I saw that "always down" behaviour in some early version (the "1.9" beta, or one of the 2.0's), but I think that was with Draw. (I have to anchor to paragraphs or characters, because I use master and sub documents).Works for me, with frames as well as text boxes and graphics, currently using 2.3.0 and 2.4rc2 on Win XP pro. I mention this, because I did not experience this jumping behaviour from the beginning, I think depends on the anchoring of the objects. I use the frames for some kind of descriptive labels, that I need to position on top of a picture/screenshot. I want my shapes to snap to the grid, but NOT snap to one another and there doesnt seem to be a way to do this The 'Grids and guidelines' menu also only has a checkbox for grid snapping and one for 'show lines when object snapping', but doesnt have an option to turn off object snapping.
![how do i turn off snap to grid in powerpoint how do i turn off snap to grid in powerpoint](https://articulate-heroes.s3.amazonaws.com/8037.triaeux4p4.png)
for all four arrow keys !!! I press the Up arrow and the frame moves down. And when I hold the Alt key, it only moves down. The text frame can be moved with the arrow keys when the frame is selected, but in most cases the steps are too big. My experience on MS-Windows 2000, OOo 2.3.1, Writer is that it doesn't work. Rudolfo wrote:Is your suggestion to use the Alt-Key while dragging supposed to work with frames as objects, as well? I will leave this here for a while (suggest a week? don't really know the pace the oo world moves at), suggestions and revisions very welcome, and if nobody has any objections I will add it to the issue tracker.ĭoes putting it in options > writer > grid make sense? If not, perhaps a toolbar button that can be placed in the main or form design toolbar? Perhaps even a third mode for the grid button in form design - snap to grid / snap to origin / snap off? Ctrl key is suggested simply to closely mimic grid override in draw, but is otherwise arbitrary. This behaviour occurs with the grid switched off. Propose that the ctrl key when pressed and held during dragging should temporarily override this feature, and that in addition a master on/off switch be placed in options > writer > grid. Request that the feature in writer that causes objects / frames / pictures etc when being dragged to snap back to anywhere on a horizontal or vertical line from the objects starting position be togglable to facilitate pixel accurate positioning. If you could do this in writer with this 'snap' feature (or indeed the grid), it'd be great! Just thinking aloud, but can anyone think of other functionality this would get in the way of? Perhaps after some discussion, if nobody can think of an obvious reason it shouldn't work, we might suggest it as a feature? I can't imagine it would be hard to implement.Īnyway, if anyone has any ideas how I can get around this. I had a look around in the help there, and it said you can hold 'ctrl' to override the grid in draw.
![how do i turn off snap to grid in powerpoint how do i turn off snap to grid in powerpoint](https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/9351b44e-2358-4233-8867-64021d58b29f.png)
I think they're draw's global settings, besides which even if they were 'tied' to a specific object presumably settings won't survive a file export, and you can't copy / paste a drawing into writer.
![how do i turn off snap to grid in powerpoint how do i turn off snap to grid in powerpoint](https://bs-uploads.toptal.io/blackfish-uploads/blog/article/content/cover_image_file/cover_image/11643/staging.toptal.net_finance_financial-consultants_powerpoint-presentation-tips-and-hacks-b9aaa598e417462f2f40b2d7fc2fcc12.png)
That's exactly the feature I want - that lower set of buttons marked 'snap', but they only affect draw. It uses an invisible grid to line up the items on the screen along perfect horizontal and vertical lines.Good suggestion huw, has given me some interesting leads, but not solved it. Snap to grid is a computer function used to organize files or images automatically. If you click Set as Default, snap to grid will be turned off for all presentations. On the page that Corday linked to, under notes, it says 'To temporarily override the snap-to options, hold down ALT while you drag the shape or object.' I don't want to disable snap-to, but I tried it anyway.
![how do i turn off snap to grid in powerpoint how do i turn off snap to grid in powerpoint](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/s0Um_nsUxUM/maxresdefault.jpg)
To snap shapes or other objects to the closest intersection of the grid, under Snap to, check Snap objects to grid.On the View tab, in the Show group, click the dialog box launcher.Do one or both of the following: To snap shapes or other objects to the closest intersection of the grid, click Snap to Grid.īesides, how do you snap shapes in PowerPoint? Click the shape or other object, and then on the Shape Format tab, under Arrange, click Align.