https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Turn-the-snap-to-grid-and-snap-to-object-options-on-or-off-424ef04b-63c0-4815-b0ad-821d2e9b3c2e#bmppt
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Power Point turn snap to grid off
It was fiendishly difficult where to find the option to enable and disable this setting. Uncharacteristically, the support page from M$ had very clear instructions that helped:
