Prezi Cookbook

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Moving an element – image, text, or some other type

No matter how much time you spend planning your design before you begin working on the Prezi canvas, you will find that you will often need to move texts, images, and other elements to different positions on the canvas.

Sometimes the moves will be big; at other times, you will just want to fine-tune an element's position.

Fortunately, Prezi makes it easy. For any kind of element, there are two ways to do the big moves, and one for the incremental adjustments.

Let's begin with the big moves.

How to do it…

Using your mouse, click on an element to select it.
Hold your left mouse button down.
Now move the element by dragging the mouse.
Release the mouse button when the element is at the desired place on your canvas.

Alternatively, you can use the following method:

Using your mouse, click on an element to select it.
Grab the hand icon in the middle of the black toolbar on the element.
Hold and drag the selected element on the canvas, as shown in the following screenshot:

Hold the hand to drag a selected element on the canvas

For the smaller or incremental adjustments in position, we can use the arrow keys on your keyboard, which is the easiest way:

Using your mouse, click on an element to select it.
Use your left or right arrow key on the keyboard, as shown in the following figure, to "nudge" the selected element into place:

Note that there are two settings to move the selected elements using the arrow keys:

Clicking on an arrow key moves a selected element by 1 pixel.
Clicking on an arrow key while holding down Shift moves a selected element by 10 pixels.

There's more…

Dragging an element to the edge of the visible part of the canvas will scroll the canvas to make room for the element.