I'm making a flyer for a trivia night at
a local restaurant and I think it needs
something else to really make it pop one
of the best ways to do that is by adding
shapes so I think I'm going to add one
behind trivia night first go to insert
and then click shapes
and you'll see that there are a lot of
different shapes to choose from for my
purposes I'd like to some kind of star
shape and I think this one might work
well first click on the shape then on
the document click and drag and the
shape will appear
once it's there you can change the size
by dragging these handles
and if you drag one of the corner
handles you can adjust the height and
width at the same time and you can also
rotate it by dragging the green handle
right now the shape is covering up the
text and I actually wanted it behind
that anytime you have shapes or other
elements overlapping each other you'll
need to think about the ordering in this
case I want to move the shape back so it
will be behind trivia night
right click the shape and you'll see
that there's a bring to front and send
to back option and each one has its own
little menu with more options in this
case we want to send it behind the text
then I'll move this text down to get it
out of the way
it still looks a little plain but
luckily we have a number of different
options for changing the appearance of a
shape select the shape and then the
format tab will appear from here we can
select a shape style
and there's a drop-down arrow that you
can click to see all of them
this is one of the quickest ways to
change the appearance of a shape because
it's automatically changing the
background color outline and sometimes
adding one or more effects
but if you really want to customize it
you can change these things individually
I'm going to select this red color for
the fill
and then this purple color for the
outline
I can barely see the outline right now
so I need to increase the weight
when you hover over the different
weights you'll see a preview of them in
the document
and this is looking better and now I
think I'll just add an effect
if you want you can mix and match
several different effects but I think
I'm just going to add a bevel beveling
adds kind of a curved edge to the shape
which helps it to look three-dimensional
all right this is looking a lot more
eye-catching now adding just one shape
made it look a lot more like a flyer
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