1*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 3*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 4*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 5*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<!--*********************************************************** 6*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * 7*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 8*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 9*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * distributed with this work for additional information 10*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 11*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 12*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 13*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * with the License. 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See the License for the 21*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * specific language governing permissions and limitations 22*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * under the License. 23*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * 24*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski ***********************************************************--> 25*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 26*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 27*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 28*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 29*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <helpdocument version="1.0"> 30*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<meta> 31*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<topic id="textsdrawguidealign_arrangexml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 32*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Arranging, Aligning and Distributing Objects</title> 33*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<filename>/text/sdraw/guide/align_arrange.xhp</filename> 34*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</topic> 35*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</meta> 36*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<body> 37*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149656" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="73"><variable id="align_arrange"><link href="text/sdraw/guide/align_arrange.xhp" name="Arranging and Aligning Objects">Arranging, Aligning and Distributing Objects</link> 38*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</variable></paragraph> 39*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3125863"><bookmark_value>arranging; objects (guide)</bookmark_value> 40*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<bookmark_value>objects;aligning</bookmark_value> 41*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<bookmark_value>distributing draw objects</bookmark_value> 42*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<bookmark_value>aligning;draw objects</bookmark_value> 43*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</bookmark> 44*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3125863" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="17">Arranging Objects</paragraph> 45*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153727" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">Each object that you place in your document is successively stacked on the preceding object. To re-arrange the stacking order of a selected object, proceed as follows.</paragraph> 46*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<list type="ordered"> 47*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<listitem> 48*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN107D5" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">Click the object whose position you want to change.</paragraph> 49*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</listitem> 50*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<listitem> 51*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150327" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="78">Choose <item type="menuitem">Modify - Arrange</item> to bring up the context menu and choose one of the arrange options:</paragraph> 52*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN107E6" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"> 53*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<emph>Bring to Front</emph> places the object on top of all other objects</paragraph> 54*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN107EC" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"> 55*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<emph>Bring Forward</emph> places the object one place forward in the stack of objects</paragraph> 56*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN107F2" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"> 57*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<emph>Send Backward</emph> places the object one place back in the stack of objects</paragraph> 58*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN107F8" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"> 59*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<emph>Send to Back</emph> places the object behind all other objects</paragraph> 60*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN107FE" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"> 61*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<emph>Behind Object</emph> places the object behind another object that you select</paragraph> 62*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</listitem> 63*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</list> 64*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155766" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="79">Arranging an Object Behind Another Object</paragraph> 65*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<list type="ordered"> 66*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<listitem> 67*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10811" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click the object whose position you want to change.</paragraph> 68*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</listitem> 69*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<listitem> 70*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3154253" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="80">Choose <item type="menuitem">Modify - Arrange</item> to open the context menu and choose <emph>Behind Object</emph>. The mouse pointer changes to a hand.</paragraph> 71*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</listitem> 72*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<listitem> 73*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149126" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="81">Click the object behind which you want to place the selected object.</paragraph> 74*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</listitem> 75*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</list> 76*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145789" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="20">Reversing The Stacking Order of Two Objects</paragraph> 77*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<list type="ordered"> 78*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<listitem> 79*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3154022" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="83">Shift-click both objects to select them.</paragraph> 80*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</listitem> 81*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<listitem> 82*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3155114" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="84">Choose <item type="menuitem">Modify - Arrange</item> to open the context menu and choose <emph>Reverse</emph>.</paragraph> 83*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</listitem> 84*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</list> 85*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3166425" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="21">Aligning Objects</paragraph> 86*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152994" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="22">The <emph>Alignment</emph> function enables you to align objects relative to each other or relative to the page.</paragraph> 87*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<list type="ordered"> 88*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<listitem> 89*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_idN108A3" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Select an object to align it to the page or select multiple objects to align them relative to each other.</paragraph> 90*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</listitem> 91*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<listitem> 92*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_idN108A7" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Choose <item type="menuitem">Modify - Alignment</item> and select one of the alignment options.</paragraph> 93*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</listitem> 94*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</list> 95*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN108AE" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Distributing Objects</paragraph> 96*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3151390" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="71">If you select three or more objects in Draw, you can also use the <link href="text/shared/01/05360000.xhp" name="Distribution"><emph>Distribution</emph></link> command to distribute the vertical and horizontal spacing evenly between the objects.</paragraph> 97*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<list type="ordered"> 98*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<listitem> 99*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_idN108CE" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Select three or more objects to be distributed.</paragraph> 100*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</listitem> 101*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<listitem> 102*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_idN108D2" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Choose <item type="menuitem">Modify - Distribution</item>.</paragraph> 103*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</listitem> 104*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<listitem> 105*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_idN108DA" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Select the horizontal and vertical distribution option and click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph> 106*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</listitem> 107*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</list> 108*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150535" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="72">Selected objects are distributed evenly along the horizontal or vertical axis. The two outermost objects are used as reference points and do not move when the <emph>Distribution</emph> command is applied.</paragraph> 109*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<section id="relatedtopics"> 110*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<embed href="text/simpress/guide/move_object.xhp#move_object"/> 111*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</section> 112*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</body> 113*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</helpdocument> 114