019 - Grouping And Layering

Page 019a // Tutorial Activity: GROUPING GROUPING: Grouping objects makes things easier to move around, copy and do other things to objects. TO GROUP OBJECTS


1. DRAW A MARQUEE around what you want to group.

ORDER (LAYERS): PowerPoint has the capability of creating layers. To find out more about it, complete the tutorial.

Vocab Box: LAYER Your own words

Quick Sketch

Vocab Box: MARQUEE Your own words

Quick Sketch

Making A Pizza with LAYERS. (watch the demo) FOUR types of ORDER:


2. RIGHT-CLICK inside the MARQUEE and SELECT GROUPING > GROUP. (To ungroup, choose UNGROUP)

Task 1 // Slide #1
Use the SHAPES tool to create 3 shapes and arrange them close to each other like below.

Task 2 // Slide #2-4
There are 4 Shapes on slide #2, use the ORDER function to order it in the following order. (FROM TOP TO BOTTOM) Heart, Bar, Circle, Star


Group the objects together.

Notice that now the 3 Objects

act like ONE OBJECT.


Change the size of the 3 OBJECTS, so that the group is smaller.


Then copy and paste the group 4 times.
Grouped objects will move together, so move them around so that they are spread out on the slide, like below.


SLIDE #3 // Copy slide #2 to Slide #3. Re-order the layers from TOP TO BOTTOM in this order: STAR, BAR, HEART, CIRCLE
SLIDE #4 // Copy slide #3 to Slide #4. Re-order the layers from TOP TO BOTTOM in this order: CIRCLE, HEART, STAR, BAR

Page 019b // GROUPING / LAYERING

Task 3 // Slide #5
Create a PIZZA.

Task 4 // Slide #6-12