/PPT-Align-Dialog

An AppleScript-Pashua dialog box to Align Shapes

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PPT-Align-Dialog

This is an AppleScript-Pashua-based dialog box to align shapes in PowerPoint 2016. I've always been frustrated that since Microsoft went with the Ribbon UI, you could no longer have a floating Align palette to quickly align shapes. This script is designed to somewhat remediate that by displaying a quick pop-up dialog to align selected shapes. Admittedly it's not quite the same, but it's faster than going through the Ribbon to access alignment commands.

Requirements

You will need to install Pashua in a standard location (see the Pashua instructions on this) for this script to work. However, all other code required to run the script is in the file.

This script also requires PowerPoint 2016. This may work on earlier versions of PowerPoint for Mac, but as I understand it, older versions may not have the "Align" AppleScript command.

Installation

I use this script with FastScripts, which makes it easy to launch the dialog via a shortcut from within PowerPoint 2016. This is especially true now that PowerPoint no longer has a dedicated Scripts menu.

In FastScripts, create a application-specific folder if one doesn't exist for PowerPoint, then move this script file into that directory. You can add a keyboard shortcut from the FastScripts Preferences dialog box.