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← Level 2 – Assembler

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Alignment and a grid

Bullets and pictures sit on invisible lines. Dancing boxes hurt from the back.

Left edges sit on one line. The mouse by centimetres breaks it.

You already have air. Today you line up boxes. Alignment is that left edges of text sit on one line. When every box dances a centimetre, from the back it looks like a broken poster.

You quiet the dance with a grid and guides, not by guessing. Guessing lies on your laptop. A grid does not lie on a projector.

In Slides you turn on View → Guides. You drag boxes until they snap to a line. With more objects Arrange → Align → Left. Do not lay a fifth text box outside the layout. Put Apply layout back and write into placeholders.

One system for the whole piece of work. Centre only on a title, if the title layout wants centre. Bullets left. Not centre under a long title and left under it. A parent or the school holds the account. Thumbnails on the left show at once if strips dance. You fix a dance with a line, not a new font.

Tereza nudged every line with the mouse so it was lively. From the back a mess. The teacher did not know where to start reading. Jonáš turned on guides, aligned left, titles at the same height on all slides. The class read from top to bottom. Calm. In the evening Tereza put Title and body layout back and stopped drawing a fifth field. She deleted a drawn box that danced a centimetre. She said liveliness was a dance. A dance hurts from the back. Lines do not. 학교 Workspace held the account. Thumbnails on the left showed the strips no longer jump. She deleted the fifth field. She left guides on until titles on all slides sat at the same height.

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If a box does not snap to a line, you are outside the layout. Put Apply layout back. Do not centimetre with the mouse. A centimetre is a dance.

Guides hold order, guessing breaks it

Alignment is one vertical line for left edges. Titles on all slides at the same height. A picture, when there is one, to the same line, or centred under the title — but the same on all slides.

View → Guides. Drag until the box snaps. Select title and body with Shift. Arrange → Align → Left. Eyes go down, not sideways hunting the start of a line.

If the title on slide 3 jumps higher than on slide 2, Slide → Apply layout again. Layout is the skeleton from 준비. It holds.

Alignment is lines, not new type. You already have type and sizes. Lines today. Eight slides, the same system. Present (F5), step back. Do boxes dance? Fix with a guide, not a font. Turn guides off at the end so they do not disturb the presentation. Eight slides, the same title height at the top.

Wrong: title left, bullets almost centre, one number at the right edge because it fitted there. From the back three starts of reading. The teacher wanders.

Right: Jonáš’s left edges on one line, titles at the same height. Tereza after guides the same. Thumbnails on the left stopped dancing.

An example from a report: slides 4 and 5 have proofs. If one dances, it looks like a different piece of work. The grid says: it is one report. If you drew a fifth field, Apply layout puts the skeleton back and the dance vanishes. Thumbnails on the left give that away at once.

⚠️

Do not centre text under a long title when bullets are left. One system for the whole piece of work. Centre only on a title if the title layout wants it.

Four things you will build in this course

The course has four small projects. You do not have to do them all at once. Today you add only this:

🎯 A hobby in 5 slides

Five slides about something you like doing. One sentence about what it is. No paragraphs from your notebook.

Hobby: five slides, the same title height, so it is not five posters.

📚 A report

Eight slides for school: a start, three proofs, an end. The title on every slide is a sentence, not “Slide 3”.

Report: eight left edges on one line.

📊 Survey results

A chart from a table (not a screenshot from chat) and under it where the numbers come from.

Survey: a chart and a title sit on a grid, not by eye.

⚖️ A defence

You say one sentence, show proof, answer “and what if…”. If you do not know, you say I don’t know.

Defence: a panel reads from top to bottom. Dancing boxes steal time.

Turn on guides and align left

You turn on lines. You snap boxes. Left edges sit. Titles at the same height on two slides.

  1. View → Guides. You will see lines. Click the bullet box and drag to the vertical line until it snaps. Leave it. Do not centimetre. A centimetre is a dance. Delete the dance with a guide.

  2. Select title and body with Shift. Arrange → Align → Left. Left edges sit. That is a grid. Eyes go down, not sideways hunting the start of a line.

  3. In PowerPoint almost the same: View → Guides, then Format → Align → Left. When you later have a picture, align it to the same vertical line, or centre under the title, but the same on all slides. Switch to the second slide. The same title height. If it jumps, Apply layout again.

  4. Present (F5), step back. Do boxes dance? Fix with a guide, not a new font. You already have font and hierarchy. Lines today. Line up at least two slides. Eight slides, the same system.

  5. Turn guides off only at the end so they do not disturb the presentation. Drive watches saving. The workshop ends when thumbnails on the left have no dancing strips. Calm is Assembler. Not liveliness of guessing.

A dance of thumbnails

On the left in the preview you will see whether strips sit or dance. You fix a dance with lines.

  1. Turn on guides and snap the bullet box to the vertical line.

  2. Compare title height on slides 2 and 3. If it jumps, Apply layout.

  3. Present (F5) from the door: do you always start reading top left? If not, line up more.

Now you 💪

  1. I can turn on guides and snap a box to them.
  2. Left edges of title and body sit on one line.
  3. Titles on slides do not have a dancing height.
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Done when: Boxes sit on lines. Thumbnails on the left do not dance.

What to take from this lesson

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