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In previous tutorials, we have explained the formatting of shape outlines in PowerPoint 2010 and changing the weight of shape outlines. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can apply a dash style to the shape outline. A dashed line in PowerPoint 2010 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.
Learn how to apply the dash attribute to the shape outlines in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Lines, PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials
These Valentine Day’s heart symbols are already colored using typical Valentine Day colors — for instance, the hearts that you download from this page are lilac in color. Do remember though that they can be recolored using PowerPoint’s native options for fills, lines, and effects. These hearts are contained within a sample presentation you can download. Just copy the heart clip art you like and paste into another PowerPoint slide, or even a Word document or Excel worksheet. All these heart symbols are vector shapes, so you can easily edit them within your Microsoft Office program, and resize them without losing sharpness or clarity.
Download, view, and use the symbols in this presentation.
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Tagged as: Clip Media, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples
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 red 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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Presentation Bank
Tagged as: Clip Media, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples
I have explained the basics of formatting shape outlines in PowerPoint 2010. Now I take you further ahead to explore more advanced options for all line formatting characteristics like weight, dash style, arrow style, gradient lines, etc. I cover each of these aspects in individual tutorials — this particular page explores how you can change line weight to make the outlines thinner and thicker — I also cover compound lines such as those that encompass double or triple lines. Weight is the thickness attribute of the shape outline. You can change the weight all the way from a hairline thin line to a chunky thick line.
Learn how to change the weight attribute of shape outlines in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Lines, PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials
This is a guest article by Mike Parkinson of Billion Dollar Graphics. Presentations that use good visual communication are far more successful; however, most presentation software users make text-heavy slides with canned clip art and irrelevant graphics. This two-part article uncovers the top solutions to guarantee you have powerful presentation graphics that increase your success rate.
Mike Parkinson explores why presentations with graphics are more successful.
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Tagged as: Design, Graphics, Guest Post, Opinion, PowerPoint
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