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Symbols for PowerPoint are ready to use clip-art style icons that you can use within your presentation slides. Although the icons you download from this page are violet in color (find more icons for PowerPoint here), they can be recolored using PowerPoint’s native options for fills, lines, and effects. These symbols are contained within a sample presentation you can download. Just copy the icon you like and paste into another PowerPoint slide, or even a Word document or Excel worksheet. Choose symbol icons from themes such as business, travel, music, etc. All these symbol icons are vector shapes, so you can easily edit them within your Microsoft Office program.
Download, view, and use the symbols in this presentation.
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You have already seen how to apply different fill types for shapes and also how to format shape outlines in PowerPoint 2010. Now, lets move on to Shape Effects, the next option in Shape Styles group. Just like the Shape Effects PowerPoint 2007, there are six distinct Shape Effects available in PowerPoint 2010 as well.
Learn about shape effects that can be applied to selected shapes in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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This is a guest article by Bess Gallanis of Speaking with Power and Persuasion, an executive communications consulting firm based in Chicago. She is a communication coach, speaker, journalist, a student of yoga and insight meditation and the author of Yoga Chick (Warner Books, 2006). For more than 25 years, public and private company CEOs, senior executives, portfolio managers and financial advisors have sought out Bess to help them develop their leadership voice and to make an impact through skillful communications. In this article, Bess talks about how a story can endure.
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Tagged as: Bess Gallanis, Guest Post, Opinion, PowerPoint, Stories
Symbols for PowerPoint are ready to use clip-art style icons that you can use within your presentation slides. Although the icons you download from this page are turquoise in color (find more icons for PowerPoint here), they can be recolored using PowerPoint’s native options for fills, lines, and effects. These symbols are contained within a sample presentation you can download. Just copy the icon you like and paste into another PowerPoint slide, or even a Word document or Excel worksheet. Choose symbol icons from themes such as business, travel, music, etc. All these symbol icons are vector shapes, so you can easily edit them within your Microsoft Office program.
Download, view, and use the symbols in this presentation.
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After learning how to format shape outlines in PowerPoint 2007, apply weight and dash styles, arrowheads add gradients to outlines, you are now ready to learn how you can remove the shape outline altogether. Whenever you insert a new shape into a PowerPoint slide, you can see that it is filled with a solid color and has an outline by default (this may differ depending on the Theme applied to your presentation). Most of the time, you may leave that unaltered, but if you want, you can remove the fill of the shape or the outline, which is what you will learn on this page.
Learn how to remove a shape outline in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows.
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Tagged as: Lines, PowerPoint 2007, Shapes, Tutorials
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