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tops of the First Name and Last Name fields are aligned, and the left edges of the First
Name, Rental Fee, Lease Duration, and Date Signed fields are aligned.
Figure 3-19. The Inspector's Arrange and Align tools have icons that indicate their purpose. If
you're not sure which tool to use, hover your mouse over a tool to see the tool's pop-up tooltip.
Here the mouse is pointing to the “Resize to largest width” tool. If you get unexpected results, just
choose the Edit→Undo Resize command, and all your objects return to their original sizes.
All layout objects have tops and bottoms, left and right edges, and horizontal and vertical
centers. A suite of six commands (shown in
Figure 3-19
or on the Arrange→Align submenu)
helps you align multiple selected objects on any of their edges or centers. When you align
objects on an edge, all the objects move to align with the object that's farthest in the direction
you chose. When you align objects on their centers, they line up on an invisible line through
the center of every object.
If the spaces between objects are uneven, use the Distribute commands. Distribute works by
measuring the space between the two outermost objects and then distributing the rest of the
objects between those first two. For this command to work, you have to select at least three
