Introduction
The presentaid Clever Cluster offers you a One-Click-Experience to align your shapes in a table like format. Additionally, it offers an extended context menu to easily maintain such layouts.
Enable/Disable the Clever Cluster context menu
To enable or disable the clever cluster context menu, you have to click on the button `Show context Menu`
Note: The Clever Cluster context menu needs to be enabled to define and adjust the Clever Cluster
Define a Clever Cluster
- Select the shapes that you want to arrange and click on the button that will show in the bottom right corner of your selection
Clever Cluster Button - The shapes are now aligned and your Clever Cluster is defined
Clever Cluster Done - Adjust the horizontal and vertical space with the arrows in the ribbon until the layout fits your needs
Clever Cluster Adjustment
Align Column Width/Row Height
- Select the shapes that you want to arrange and click the button to vertically/horizontally align the shapes
Clever Cluster Distribute - The width/height of the shapes will be adjusted. The space between the shapes remains unchanged.
Clever Cluster Distribute Aligned
Scale the size of your Clever Cluster
- Select the shapes that you want to arrange and drag the adorner in the bottom right of the Clever Cluster
Clever Cluster Adorner - You will see a preview of the target state. Release the mouse button to finish the Clever Cluster
Clever Cluster Adorner Moved
Note:Press and hold the `SHIFT` button on your keyboard to lock the vertical/horizontal size of your Clever Cluster.
By default, using the adorner will resize the cells of your Clever Cluster and leaves the horizontal and vertical space as is. If you want to lock in the cell size and want to change the horizontal/vertical space, press and hold `CTRL` on your keyboard.
Add/Remove/Merge Columns and Rows
- Select a shape in your Clever Cluster to show the context menu
Clever Cluster Menu - Amend the Clever Cluster, e.g. add a Column on the right side of your selected shape
Clever Cluster New Column
Note:When holding `CTRL` and clicking a Clever Cluster context menu button, the size of the Clever Cluster (width and height) will be preserved.