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How to Video showing how to enlarge or reduce a group of clipart state, country or county PowerPoint maps from www.mapsfordesign.com or www.bjdesign.com. To enlarge several states or counties you need to GROUP them together.1 Hold down the Shift key and using the pointer CLICK using the right button on the PC mouse and the regular click on the Mac mouse, on the states you want to enlarge together.2 Once the states are selected click on the DRAW popup menu in the TOOL BAR along the bottom and choose GROUP.3 You will now see just 8 handles on your selected group. Place your pointer over one of the lower left or right corner handles. Click, and hold down the mouse button and drag the handle in a diagonal 45 degree direction. This will enlarge the group. Release your mouse button when you have the correct size. Pulling out, the group will enlarge, moving in towards the center it will reduce. Holding down the SHIFT key will keep things proportional.4 Text elements will need to be re-adjusted manually, they will move to the correct place but in PowerPoint they do not scale up or down. You may also need to UNGROUP them and move them where needed. The text can be resized using the Font Tools along the top of the screen.About the MapsEditable MS PowerPoint clipart maps for sales and marketing presentations, illustrations, graphic design, and websites. Royalty Free, World, USA, States, County, Countries, World Regions, and Globes. In PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator EPSEach state, county, country, text block is an individual element that can be customized, changed, colored however you like.Perfect for sales and marketing presentations, showing sales territories, office locations, project progress.Learn more at http://www.mapsfordesign.com or http://www.bjdesign.comAvailable for instant download, or on CD-Rom.Sign up for our FREE Tips Newsletter on customizing PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator EPS maps at http://mapsfordesign.blogspot.com/

• Release Date

  Mar 30, 2008

• Runtime

  06:37