Snap to Grid
The "snap to grid" facility, enabled by clicking the
button on the Graphs Tools toolbar or the Snap to Grid command on the View menu, aligns drawing objects with the drawing grid, an invisible network of lines that covers the drawing area (the grid may be displayed by pressing CTRL+G or selecting the Alignment Grid command from the View menu).
When this facility is enabled, inserted objects are always pulled into alignment with gridlines or intersections of gridlines (the "snap to grid" effect). The default spacing of gridlines is 5% of the display; the vertical and horizontal spacing between gridlines can be changed. Initially, the grid begins at the 0,0 point in the upper-left corner of the graph window, but you can change the location from which gridlines are measured by editing the Horizontal and Vertical Origin values.
When placing objects, and when the Snap to Grid option is turned On, you may temporarily turn it Off while dragging an object (to make fine adjustments to the object's position, independent of the grid) by first clicking on the object, and then holding down the ALT key.
See also the Resizing and moving section in How is the mouse used in graph applications?.