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Shapes are the building blocks of almost anything you do on your PowerPoint slides — and PowerPoint provides hundreds of shapes categorized into 9 types (in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010). All these shapes can be used in various ways — you can combine the shapes, format the shapes with fills, lines, and effects, and even group or layer them to create more complex shapes. This tutorial explores the various types of shapes available to create within PowerPoint.
Learn about different types of shapes in PowerPoint.
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I always believe that Shapes are the building block using which you can add any type of graphic to your PowerPoint slide — most content that you can select on the slide such as ungrouped tables or charts, Shapes, or even a video clip works so much like a Shape. Learn to format shapes, and you can use the same tricks to format these other slide objects. As part of this Learn PowerPoint series, I already have covered many such topics and more are continuously being added — today’s tutorial shows how you can quickly add a shape to your PowerPoint slide.
Learn how to insert Shapes in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows.
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Shapes can often be combined to create more complex shapes — for instance 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 just bulleted text. To create any such graphic content, you need to start by inserting common shapes — fortunately PowerPoint makes it easy to do so.
To insert a Shape on your PowerPoint 2010 for Windows slide follow these steps.
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Creating outlines for PowerPoint in various external applications lets you stay away from distractions in PowerPoint-land — once you have the outlines done, it’s very easy to import it in the form of slides into PowerPoint. While this import process works the same way in all versions of PowerPoint, there are small interface changes. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to import outlines in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
Learn how you can import outlines in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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TechSmith Snagit is one of the most amazing programs — all these years, TechSmith has made successive versions of Snagit available to Windows users, and now finally Snagit comes to the Mac. A screen capture application that does much more, Snagit lets you capture almost anything on the computer screen, edits to the screenshots by scaling, adding callouts, applying effects, etc. Finally, it also provides many options to share the screenshots.
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