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I'm making a flyer for Trivia Night at a local
restaurant, and I think it needs something

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else to really make it pop.

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One of the best ways to do that is by adding
shapes, so I think I'm going to add a shape

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behind "Trivia Night."

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Go to Insert and click Shapes.

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You'll see that there are a lot of different
shapes to choose from.

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For my purposes, I'd like some kind of star
shape, and I think this one might work well.

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First, click on the shape.

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Then, on the document, click and drag and
the shape will appear.

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Once it's there, you can change the size by
dragging these handles, and if you drag one

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of the corner handles you can adjust the height
and width at the same time.

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You can also rotate it by dragging the green
handle.

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This shape is covering up "Trivia Night,"
and I actually wanted it behind that.

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Any time you have shapes or other elements
overlapping each other, you'll have to think

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about the ordering.

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In this case, I want to move the shape back
so that it will be behind "Trivia Night."

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To change the ordering, right-click the shape,
and you'll see that there's a Bring to Front

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and Send to Back option, and each one has
its own little menu that pops up on the side.

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In this case, we want to send it behind the
text.

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I'll move this text down to get it out of
the way.

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It still looks a little plain, but luckily
we have a number of different options for

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changing the appearance of a shape.

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Select the shape and then the Format tab will
appear.

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From there we can select a Shape Style.

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There's a drop-down arrow that you can click
to see all of them.

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This is one of the quickest ways to change
the appearance of a shape, because it's automatically

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changing the background color, the outline,
and sometimes adding one or more effects.

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But if you really want to customize it, you
can change these things individually.

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I'm going to select this red color for the
fill, and then this purple color for the outline.

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I can barely see the outline right now, so
I need to increase the weight.

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You'll notice that when you hover over the
different weights, you can see how they'll

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look in the document.

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This is looking better, and I think I'll just
add an effect.

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I'm going to choose a Bevel effect.

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Beveling adds kind of a curved edge, which
helps the shape to look three-dimensional.

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This is a lot more eye-catching now.

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Adding just one shape made it look a lot more
like a flyer.