I'm making a flyer for 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 a shape
behind "Trivia Night."
Go to Insert and click Shapes.
You'll see that there are a lot of different shapes to choose from.
For my purposes, I'd like 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.
You can also rotate it by dragging the green handle.
This shape is covering up "Trivia Night," and I actually wanted it behind that.
Any time you have shapes or other elements overlapping each other, you'll have to think
about the ordering.
In this case, I want to move the shape back so that it will be behind "Trivia Night."
To change the ordering, 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 that pops up on the side.
In this case, we want to send it behind the text.
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 there we can select a Shape Style.
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, the 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.
You'll notice that when you hover over the different weights, you can see how they'll
look in the document.
This is looking better, and I think I'll just add an effect.
I'm going to choose a Bevel effect.
Beveling adds kind of a curved edge, which helps the shape to look three-dimensional.
This is a lot more eye-catching now.
Adding just one shape made it look a lot more like a flyer.