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PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about Working With Slide Numbers, Adding Headers and Footers to Slides, Adding Headers and Footers to Notes and Handout Pages, Formatting Outlines for Weight/Thickness and Dashes. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users can explore Formatting Lines (and Shape Outlines), and the Weight/Thickness attributes. And if that wasn’t enough for this week, make sure you do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates released in the last week.
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We have explained the basics of formatting shape outlines in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac. Now we take you further ahead to explore how you can change line weight to make the outlines thinner and thicker. So why would you want to alter the weight of an outline? There are many reasons. More often than not, you may want a line that’s almost invisible or very thin. This lets your audience focus on other areas. At other times when you want the attention of your audience to focus on a particular line, then you can do so by increasing its weight. In this tutorial, we will also cover compound lines such as those that encompass double or triple lines.
Change the weight attribute of shape outlines in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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Shapes let you do so much in PowerPoint. Once you master the art of adding and working with shapes, you can do so much. For example, you can place circles of various sizes one on top of the other to create something that looks like a target. Similarly, you can create seemingly complicated arrangements of shapes quite easily to create something that illustrates a concept or idea so much better than mere bulleted text. To create any such graphic content, you need to start by inserting common shapes. PowerPoint for the Web, the browser-based version of PowerPoint makes it easy to do so.
Learn how to insert shapes in PowerPoint for the Web.
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In previous tutorials, we have explained the formatting of shape outlines in PowerPoint 2007 and changing the weight of shape outlines. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how you can apply a dash style to the shape outline. A dashed line in PowerPoint 2007 can have plenty of variations: from a line with fewer dashes to ones with longer or smaller dashes, or even alternating small and long dashes.
Apply the dash attribute to shape outlines in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows.
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To format any slide object in PowerPoint, you must select it. There are a couple of ways to select any slide object, as explained in our Select and Deselect Shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac tutorial. Other than the obvious way of clicking the slide object to select, you can also use the Selection Pane. The Selection pane makes it easy to select slide objects that are difficult to locate, such as overlapping slide objects or objects placed behind a larger object in busy, populated slides.
Learn how to select Shapes using the Selection Pane in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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