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shapes are a great way to make your
presentations more interesting
PowerPoint gives you a lot of different
shapes to choose from and they can be
customized to suit your needs using your
own color palette preferences and more
to get started go to the insert tab
click the shapes command then take a
look at the menu and see if there is
anything you want to use in this example
we're going to select the heart shape
here to draw your shape click and drag
the mouse roughly where you want it to
go the shape will appear with your
current color scheme the quickest way to
change the look of your shape is to use
one of the predefined shape styles on
the format tab these options will depend
on the colors that are part of your
current theme just hover over each one
for a preview and see if there's
anything you like you can also use the
commands on the right to choose your own
formatting options such as the fill
color outline color and other shape
effects you can even change the shape
itself if you want to try something
different make sure that the shape you
want to change is selected then click
the Edit shape command on the far left
of the format tab you can then choose a
new shape from the menu
I'm going to go with the Sun shape
and I think I'd like to make a few more
tweaks first I'm going to make the shape
a little smaller using the sizing
handles here these can be found on the
sides and the corners of any shape or
object in PowerPoint
every shape also has a rotation handle
that you can drag in any direction to
rotate it if your shape has any yellow
handles like the one you see here you
can use those to make other adjustments
in this case the yellow handle changes
the proportions of the Sun but it really
just depends some shapes don't have this
option at all finally I think I'll
change the fill color to something
that's a little more appropriate for a
Sun how about this yellow color the
great thing about shapes is that they
can be combined and customized to create
your own unique graphics mastering this
element can take time but with a little
practice and a little creativity you can
create almost anything let's try adding
another shape so I can show you what I
mean
and I'll just tweak the fill color
and remove the outline
and there we go when you're working with
multiple shapes there may be a time when
you want to change the order so the
correct shape is in front or on top this
will come up a lot with shapes so it's a
good technique to know just right click
one of your shapes then go to bring to
front and send to back now you may need
to experiment with these options to make
sure your shapes are arranged the way
you want in this example I've selected
the cloud shape and I want to move it
behind the Sun so I'm going to choose
send to back then send backward and
that'll do it
there are so many things you can do with
shapes in PowerPoint this graphic is
just one example so give it a try and
see what you can come up with you can
use just one shape at a time or you can
try combining them to create something
new
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