Download free PowerPoint shapes and templates for PowerPoint presentations including free shapes and PowerPoint illustrations to decorate your presentations. You can learn how to manipulate shapes and change shape properties including shape opacity, shape fill or find useful resources and tips how to use shapes in Microsoft PowerPoint. Add shadows to shapes, change shape size in PowerPoint or learn how to add shapes with gradient fill or edit shape text.
Lines play a crucial role in visual communication, whether in presentations, infographics, or design projects. PowerPoint, as a popular tool for creating visual content and presentations, offers various options for manipulating lines to enhance their impact so you can change these lines from diagonal to horizontal or diagonal to vertical, for example. In this article, …
In today’s digital era, business presentations have become a cornerstone of professional communication. PowerPoint, the ubiquitous slide presentation software from Microsoft, is often the go-to tool for this purpose. One might presume that basic tasks in PowerPoint, such as adding a simple dotted line, are trivial to implement, or a dashed line, too. However, even …
Imagine you are creating a presentation in PowerPoint and require certain objects to be blocked across the presentation to prevent moving them accidentally or prevent other users editing the presentation to move objects to a place where they don’t have to go. Furthermore, it is quite annoying when you accidentally end up changing the shape …
Anchor points are great for connecting lines between different shapes. This feature is very common in vector editing software and diagram applications. In PowerPoint we can also use anchor points to connect the shapes with lines and connectors. However, the default shapes available in PowerPoint (like squares, circles, arrows, etc.) comes with built-in anchor points. …
You can easily insert a perfect horizontal line in PowerPoint using shapes. The trick here is to hold the Shift key while you are drawing the line and PowerPoint will draw an horizontal and straight line in the PowerPoint canvas. You can insert a vertical line using the same approach, but instead of drawing the …
Rotate with Shapes is an option that you can check when configuring a picture as the background of a shape in PowerPoint. This option is available in the Format Picture pane when you choose Fill options, and the Picture or texture fill option is selected. It is also available when you choose a gradient fill. …
Gaussian Curve (also known as the Gaussian Bell or Bell Curve) is a statistical curve very popular in probability theory. The normal (or Gaussian) distribution is a continuous probability distribution that has a bell-shaped probability density function, known as the Gaussian function or informally as the bell curve. You can learn more about the Gaussian function on Wikipedia …
Bezier courves can really help you to draw some interesting curves for your presentations and achieve great effects for your PowerPoint presentations. You can for example use Bezier curves in PowerPoint to draw a custom and smooth Gaussian curve or Bell curve to use your presentations, or you can make a simple curved PowerPoint template. …
Today let’s see how to create a custom popup box in PowerPoint that can be useful for presentations when we need to show a tooltip or information in a new layer. This can be good for example if we need to explain charts or show address description over a PowerPoint map with pins. For this …
There are multiple ways to highlight text in PowerPoint. You can highlight text during the slideshow (known as annotation) or you can also highlight text in your slides at design time. The technique we are describing below will allow you to highlight text during design time, so every time you run the slide show the text will be highlighted and also …