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Although most people think of PowerPoint as a slide program, it’s also a great drawing program that can in many ways be more easier to use than full-fledged illustration programs. Agreed, PowerPoint is not that full featured as far as drawing goes, but sometimes quick and easy is all you need! In this tutorial, you will learn how to draw a tree with just two simple shapes in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
Learn how to use default shapes in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows to draw a quick tree.
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Duplicating stuff in PowerPoint is easy — you just select a shape and press the Command D key combination. However, such duplication copies everything: the shape, and its format attributes, such as all fills, outlines, and effects associated with the selected shape. Sometimes you only want to use those fill, outline, and effect attributes for other shapes you create — for example, you have a square that is colored pink, it has no outline, and contains a bevel effect. Now you draw a star on your slide and it has completely different attributes — how can you make sure that it matches the attributes of the square? You can spend some time, and apply those attributes to the star as well, but if you need to do that for ten or fifteen more shapes, that may result in a few hours of repetitive work! Fortunately, the Format Painter command can rescue you from this monotonous task very easily.
Learn how to use the Format Painter command effectively in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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PowerPoint provides an extensive array of built-in shapes which help you create great looking graphics for your slides. You can manipulate these graphics by dragging their diamonds or combining them — but at times, you may not achieve the exact appearance you want. For instance, you might want a little curve in your shape edges rather than conventional straight lines. PowerPoint does allow you to tweak and make your shape look more organic than geometric curved lines.
Learn how to create curved shapes in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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PowerPoint has a repertoire of various types of shapes that can be formatted by resizing, rotating, etc. When you select most shapes, you get eight resizing handles and a single rotation handle. In addition, some shapes also have one or more yellow diamonds — these enable you to change some facets of the selected shape, or in some cases you can change the entire shape.
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Let us imagine that you have a long numbered list that forms the content of your PowerPoint slide. Now, it is not uncommon for slides to have numbered lists that comprise twenty lines, and that is singularly unfortunate because even if members of your audience have perfect eyesight, they won’t be able to read the teeny-weeny sized text! And let us face the fact that too much text is downright boring, and nowadays any sort of bulleted or numbered lists seem to signify a poorly designed slide. One approach you can take to combat this problem is by dividing your list across multiple slides — but even then PowerPoint may default to numbering your lists at 1 on each slide — even when you want it to start at 6, 11, or 16! Luckily, that is an easy problem to conquer.
Learn how to start or restart the numbering for numbered list in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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