
It’s fun, maybe, but I much prefer just using Selection Pane when I need to adjust layering. Like the name implies, you can physically reorder these layers, changing the Z-order on your slide. Click Reorder Objects in the Arrange tools and you’ll enter a 3D Tron-like world of dimensional layers-one for each item on your slide.

This is a weird one with a user experience that feels like it doesn’t even belong in Microsoft Office.

On the Mac, however, this feature is always available with a check box right next to the Size controls in the ribbon. On the PC you can only lock the aspect ratio of an item in the Format panel, and that can only be brought up via a right-click or a nearly hidden arrow in the corner of the Size controls in the ribbon.

the PC-more specifically, the things you cannot do on the Mac that you can on the PC. I recently ran down the top fifteen differences between PowerPoint on the Mac vs.
