To add a new guide, right-click on the slide and then choose Guides option, then click Add Vertical Guide or Add Horizontal Guide. It is important to notice that the guides are not visible at all during the slide show or when you print a presentation. If the PowerPoint Ruler is enabled, you can measure the distance between the center of each slide to the guides. Also, guides can be moved to any desired position, vertically or horizontally.
Guides can be visible or hidden at any time and you can add guides or delete them. Working with Guides in PowerPoint 2011 for Macīy drawing guides on your slides, you can position shapes and objects very easily. This helps toward making pixel-perfect presentations. Moreover, PowerPoint 2016 has a dynamic guides feature that helps the presentation designer to align objects relative to other objects that were already inserted in the slide. This will help to snap your objects vertically or horizontally. If you want to send your presentation to someone but they don't have PowerPoint for Mac or PowerPoint for Windows, you can export your presentation in a different format, such as a picture format or a PDF file, so the recipient can view the slides. Even if PowerPoint doesn’t come with a pre-built gridlines feature in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, you can easily add new guides to PowerPoint to simulate a gridline. Gridlines are very useful if you need to align objects on a PowerPoint slide.
