There are so many shapes available within PowerPoint 2013 — and that’s good because that means so many more possibilities to create your own unique shapes by using any of the Merge Shapes commands. One of the amazing options within Merge Shapes is Combine — this retains areas where the shapes do not overlap while removes overlapping areas — think of Combine as an amazing cutout option! The resultant shapes result in a cutout, remnant shape.
Learn how you can combine shapes in PowerPoint 2013 using the Shape Combine command.

