

Click the corner where the two rulers intersect to drop both alignment guides at once. Click the mouse in either ruler to drop a single guide (down from the top ruler, or over from the left ruler). Hide the rulers to leave more space for the graph.Īlignment guides are temporary lines you can drop from the ruler to check on the position and alignment of objects. Show the rulers to align objects precisely. The rulers appear on top and to the left of the graph and page layout screens. Hold Ctrl and press M to zoom larger or J to zoom smaller.Ĭhoose Rulers from the View menu. Zooming changes the magnification on the screen, but does not change the size of the graph or layout when printed. Select a zoom level in the View menu or click the zoom buttons. To precisely align objects, zoom to a larger magnification. Drop the Arrange menu or toolbar and choose Duplicate Object. Choose Distribute Objects from the Arrange menu or toolbar. Drop the Arrange menu or toolbar and choose Send to Back. To send an object behind overlapping objects. Select it, drop the Arrange menu or toolbar and choose Bring to Front. To bring an object on top of overlapping objects. To unlock the object, select it, then select Lock Object from the Arrange menu again. When you select a locked object, the knobs will be gray rather than black, and you will not be able to move the object or change its size. Select Lock Object from the Arrange menu or toolbar. To lock an object so you can’t accidentally move it: Enter the distance between the upper left corner and the top and left edge of the page. Select Position Object from the Arrange menu or toolbar.

To position an object by entering distances: Choose horizontal and vertical orientation, or to align by the X or Y axes. Select Align Objects from the Arrange menu or toolbar. Using the Align or Group button in the Arrange section of the Prism toolbarįor graphs, use the drop-down menu under the Arrange buttonįor layouts, each task has its own button in the Arrange toolbar. To overcome this automatic snapping, hold down the ALT (Windows) or Command (Mac) key while dragging the object. Prism will also change the justification of the text to "centered." If you don't like this, you can change the justification back using the text justification button in the Text toolbar. For instance, you can drag a text box over a bar or group of bars and Prism will try to snap the text box to align with the centerline of the bar. The picture above shows a selected text box with an image and caption.Prism will automatically try to snap objects to be in alignment with graph axes and other objects. Modify style - Format - Paragraph - Spacing - After Home tab - styles pane - Current styles - Caption. Now Word’s default Caption style seems to have 10pt spacing after it if that’s With the item selected as above:īy convention figure captions go below the image table captions go above. Right click - More layout options - Text wrapping - In line with text Keep the default text wrapping around the image or table: Select - TableĪnd centre it in its paragraph within the text box ( Cxx-E). Select the image by clicking with the mouse or for a table select the entire table using: Then click inside it and add the image or table. Draw a box on the page-a bit bigger than your image or table, though it doesn’t matter as you'll resize it.
