How Dynamic Reordering Saves You Time in PowerPoint for Mac

Imagine you have some images and shapes stacked on a PowerPoint slide. You want to change the stacking order and give your slide a nicer appearance and a more creative option for a better PowerPoint presentation 10 tips to improve PowerPoint presentations with Office 2016 new standards. The new features of PowerPoint 2016 show its top spot as the best choice for smart and creative presentations. Read more . It's troublesome, like shuffling a deck of cards.

There are two ways PowerPoint 2016 for Mac can help you here:

• Use the Forward and Send Back tools to change the order.
• Use Dynamic Reordering command to manage the stacking order visually.

Bring Forward and Send Backward have been long-standing features for re-arranging graphics in PowerPoint, but Dynamic Reordering is new, giving you a better “forward” of overlapping images and graphic elements on the slide.

How to use dynamic reordering

Think of each graphic object on your slide as a sheet of clear plastic. Now, you would arrange them in the real world by mixing them one on top of the other or one behind the other. Dynamic reordering works like this. Take this slide for example:

You don't like the arrangement and would like to change the order in which they appear on the slide. You don't have to select each individual object and send them backwards or forwards. Dynamic reordering makes it much faster:

1. From the Home tab , click Organize . Then click Reorder Objects .
   
2. A three-dimensional display now shows you how all the graphical objects on the slide are layered.
3. As you hover over each layer, a number (or order number) appears. Drag the layers in the order you want.
   
4. When you have the order you want, click OK to return to normal view. Now you can see that the objects are placed as you move them.

Dynamic Reordering is exclusive to PowerPoint 2016 for Mac and gives you an easy visual way to arrange overlapping objects correctly. Windows users will have to wait and see if Microsoft ever brings this nifty feature to operating systems.

Is Dynamic Reordering a time saver? It will add to a more creative presentation.?