E-mail this pagePowerPoint: Ordering (Layering) Slide Elements
Ordinarily, you'll be able to create slides without worrying much about ordering and grouping slide elements, but if your slides are particularly complex, involving multiple layers of shapes, images, and text, ordering becomes necessary.
"Ordering" allows you to specify whether some objects should appear above or beneath other objects.
For instance, you have an image that should appear beneath the text in a bulleted field: if that is the case, you can right-click on the image, and then select the option marked Order :
When presented with options, you might then pick Send Backward or Send to Back . The first of these options sends the image one level back in the slide; the second sends the image all the way to the back of the slide.
The Ordering option is available for all objects on a PowerPoint slide: to adjust the order for any given over-lapping element, simply right-click on it.
Below, for instance, is a slide in which the image was faded (using the contrast and brightness tools on the image toolbar) and subsequently sent backward until it was behind the Title caption.
