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Combine Shapes are a set of four hidden commands in PowerPoint 2010 that are not available by default from any of the Ribbon tabs. With the capabilities of these powerful commands, you can edit and even combine shapes to create your own shapes!
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Tagged as: Customizations, Interface, PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials
Applying a new Theme to a PowerPoint presentation completely changes the appearance of all slides in the presentation. This change happens because a Theme influences the Theme Colors, Theme Fonts, Theme Effects, Theme Backdrops and much more. However, there are circumstances when you really don’t require such a complete makeover or metamorphosis. In that case, you can still change only Theme Colors and Theme Fonts and leave all other Theme attributes unchanged.
Learn how to apply Theme Colors and Theme Fonts in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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When you apply a Theme to a PowerPoint presentation, it completely changes the appearance of the slides. This happens because a Theme contains a set of predefined Theme Colors, Theme Fonts, Theme Effects, Theme Backdrops, etc. However, there may be scenarios in which you really don’t require such a complete makeover or metamorphosis. In that case, you can still change only Theme Colors and Theme Fonts and leave all other Theme attributes unchanged. This will change just the colors and/or the fonts in your slides.
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It’s easy to duplicate stuff in PowerPoint but if you already have formatted a shape exactly as you want after applying effects, fills, outlines, etc. and need to apply the same look to 50 other shapes within the presentation, then you know that you are in for a few hours of repetitive work, manually formatting each shape! 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 2010.
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PowerPoint provides different types of shapes, which 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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