Gif showing how to adjust the size of Slides objects
Grouping and ungrouping objects: If you have objects on your slide that intersect with one another — like a text box layered on top of a shape, or a complex bar chart — you may wish to group them so that they stay together in a particular order when moved or resized. Grouping is also very useful for applying edits to multiple objects at the same time.
First, select the objects you want to group together (it can be as many as you like). Then right click the objects and select Group, or use keyboard shortcut CTRL + ALT + G.
Now, when you select one object, all other grouped objects will be selected as well. This makes them easier to move around your slide and edit.
To ungroup your objects, select the group and right click on Ungroup, or press keyboard shortcut CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + G.
Note: you can only group elements that are on the same slide as one another, though it is possible to group shapes even if they are outside the bounds of your slide template.
Gif of the grouping keyboard shortcut russian phone number being used on a graph in Google Slides
Grouping objects can be helpful if you want to format multiple shapes or text in the same way at once. For example, if you need to change the font style, colour and size of all of your slide text, you can group the textboxes together and edit them using the ribbon as normal. These changes will apply to all elements within your group.
Using the alignment tools: professional, you need to use Google Slides’ handy alignment tools. To show you how to make the most of these tools, we’ll demonstrate how you could use them to format an agenda slide.
Select all four agenda points and right click on your selected object (or click the Align drop down in the Arrange tab). Here you will see a range of alignment options. Click Left so that all points line up along the left hand side.
Screenshot of Google Slide's alignment options
Next, with all four points still selected, right click again (or click the Arrange tab again), but this time choose Distribute and then Vertically. This spaces all of your points evenly between the top and bottom point.