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  40 <topic id="textsdrawguidealign_arrangexml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
  41 <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Arranging, Aligning and Distributing Objects</title>
  42 <filename>/text/sdraw/guide/align_arrange.xhp</filename>
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  45 <body>
  46 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149656" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="73"><variable id="align_arrange"><link href="text/sdraw/guide/align_arrange.xhp" name="Arranging and Aligning Objects">Arranging, Aligning and Distributing Objects</link>
  47 </variable></paragraph>
  48 <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3125863"><bookmark_value>arranging; objects (guide)</bookmark_value>
  49 <bookmark_value>objects;aligning</bookmark_value>
  50 <bookmark_value>distributing draw objects</bookmark_value>
  51 <bookmark_value>aligning;draw objects</bookmark_value>
  52 </bookmark>
  53 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3125863" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="17">Arranging Objects</paragraph>
  54 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153727" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">Each object that you place in your document is successively stacked on the preceding object. To re-arrange the stacking order of a selected object, proceed as follows.</paragraph>
  55 <list type="ordered">
  56 <listitem>
  57 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN107D5" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">Click the object whose position you want to change.</paragraph>
  58 </listitem>
  59 <listitem>
  60 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150327" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="78">Choose <item type="menuitem">Modify - Arrange</item> to bring up the context menu and choose one of the arrange options:</paragraph>
  61 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN107E6" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">
  62 <emph>Bring to Front</emph> places the object on top of all other objects</paragraph>
  63 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN107EC" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">
  64 <emph>Bring Forward</emph> places the object one place forward in the stack of objects</paragraph>
  65 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN107F2" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">
  66 <emph>Send Backward</emph> places the object one place back in the stack of objects</paragraph>
  67 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN107F8" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">
  68 <emph>Send to Back</emph> places the object behind all other objects</paragraph>
  69 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN107FE" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">
  70 <emph>Behind Object</emph> places the object behind another object that you select</paragraph>
  71 </listitem>
  72 </list>
  73 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155766" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="79">Arranging an Object Behind Another Object</paragraph>
  74 <list type="ordered">
  75 <listitem>
  76 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10811" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click the object whose position you want to change.</paragraph>
  77 </listitem>
  78 <listitem>
  79 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3154253" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="80">Choose <item type="menuitem">Modify - Arrange</item> to open the context menu and choose <emph>Behind Object</emph>. The mouse pointer changes to a hand.</paragraph>
  80 </listitem>
  81 <listitem>
  82 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149126" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="81">Click the object behind which you want to place the selected object.</paragraph>
  83 </listitem>
  84 </list>
  85 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145789" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="20">Reversing The Stacking Order of Two Objects</paragraph>
  86 <list type="ordered">
  87 <listitem>
  88 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3154022" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="83">Shift-click both objects to select them.</paragraph>
  89 </listitem>
  90 <listitem>
  91 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3155114" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="84">Choose <item type="menuitem">Modify - Arrange</item> to open the context menu and choose <emph>Reverse</emph>.</paragraph>
  92 </listitem>
  93 </list>
  94 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3166425" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="21">Aligning Objects</paragraph>
  95 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152994" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="22">The <emph>Alignment</emph> function enables you to align objects relative to each other or relative to the page.</paragraph>
  96 <list type="ordered">
  97 <listitem>
  98 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_idN108A3" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Select an object to align it to the page or select multiple objects to align them relative to each other.</paragraph>
  99 </listitem>
 100 <listitem>
 101 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_idN108A7" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Choose <item type="menuitem">Modify - Alignment</item> and select one of the alignment options.</paragraph>
 102 </listitem>
 103 </list>
 104 <paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN108AE" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Distributing Objects</paragraph>
 105 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3151390" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="71">If you select three or more objects in Draw, you can also use the <link href="text/shared/01/05360000.xhp" name="Distribution"><emph>Distribution</emph></link> command to distribute the vertical and horizontal spacing evenly between the objects.</paragraph>
 106 <list type="ordered">
 107 <listitem>
 108 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_idN108CE" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Select three or more objects to be distributed.</paragraph>
 109 </listitem>
 110 <listitem>
 111 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_idN108D2" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Choose <item type="menuitem">Modify - Distribution</item>.</paragraph>
 112 </listitem>
 113 <listitem>
 114 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_idN108DA" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Select the horizontal and vertical distribution option and click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph>
 115 </listitem>
 116 </list>
 117 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150535" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="72">Selected objects are distributed evenly along the horizontal or vertical axis. The two outermost objects are used as reference points and do not move when the <emph>Distribution</emph> command is applied.</paragraph>
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