The Align commands moves the selected shapes so that the edges or centres of the shapes align to the edges or centres of the first shape selected. The Align submenu has commands for aligning the top, bottom, left and right hand edges of shapes. It also has commands to align the centres of shapes by moving the shapes either horizontally or vertically.

To align the left-hand side of a number of shapes

§    Select the shapes to be aligned. The first shape selected will be the dominant shape to which the others will be aligned.

§    Choose Left from the Align submenu under the Geometry menu, or

§    Click on the Align Left button in the Geometry toolbar

Each of the shapes will be moved so that left hand side of each shape is aligned to the left hand side of the dominant shape. A similar procedure can be followed to align other sides of shapes by using other commands from the Align submenu.