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The ruler provides visual cues to help you place text and slide objects. When you don't need it anymore, you can hide the ruler. There are two rulers in PowerPoint: one displays horizontally at the top of the active slide, and the other displays vertically along the left edge of the slide (shown below). Windows MacOS  To show the ruler, click View , and in the Show group, check Ruler . To hide the ruler, click View , and in the Show group, clear the Ruler box. To permanently hide the vertical ruler, click File > Option...