Shapes are the building blocks of whatever you create in PowerPoint. In fact, even a text box that you add to your slide is essentially a shape that has a no fill. Once you get proficient with shapes, you can do so much more — for example, you can combine multiple shapes to create fancier shapes. However, you need to start with the very basics — and there’s so much to learn even at this foundation level. The first task you need to do is to insert a shape — fortunately PowerPoint makes it easy to do this task. To insert a new shape on your PowerPoint slide, follow these steps.
Learn how to insert Shapes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

