Is there a way to force Power Point to paste copied objects exactly on top of the original object?
The auto-displacement a little down and to the right is very frustrating.
I do not know of any way to change this, but there are alternatives to powerpoint. Open office does not do that.
If you only need one copy, you can Copy the object with Ctrl + C, hit an arrow key once then paste with Ctrl + V.
Now it is offset by just 1 arrow hit, not 22.
If you want more than one, hit the arrow key each time after pasting.
→
(temporarily move original by 1), ctrl-c
(make duplicate; the original's current, shifted position will be the duplicate's initial position), ←
(move original back to its initial position), ctrl-v
(place duplicate in shifted position; i.e. currently they are not aligned), ←
(align).
Here is the way I use :
Here's a workaround that currently works for me in PowerPoint 2016:
Copy and paste the original object to create a (displaced) duplicate.
Select both the original and the duplicate and copy them to the clipboard.
Delete the duplicate.
Paste.
Delete the new copy of the duplicate.
The copied version of the original is in exactly the same location, presumably because PowerPoint notices that the pasted objects do not exactly match the slide contents.
It's still very annoying having to take (by my count) eight steps for which should be two key presses, but it's better than nothing.
I still haven't find a real solution to this annoying "feature". The best workaround I've found is:
Here's another workaround:
I work with align options. Select all the objects then align them to right first. Since all objects are still selected, I go to align option again and click on align top.
I came across this issue when I try to make a little animation in ppt. My quick fix is to group the object with a dummy invisible object (no line, no fill) before copying and pasting. The idea is to make the size of the grouped object different from the original object. Not the perfect solution but I found it is more convenient than manually shifting.
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