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.
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 …
A heart is a symbol that shares love. Creating a heart illustration in PowerPoint is very easy, as the tool comes with a built-in heart shape and icon that you can use in your presentations. However, this option is not too intuitive at a glance, so we have created this tutorial to make a heart …
In geometry, a pentagon is any five-sided polygon and the word pentagon just refer to a regular pentagon. A pentagon may be simple or self-intersecting. The sum of the internal angles in a simple pentagon is 540°. In PowerPoint you can easily draw a simple pentagon shape using the shape tool. Here we will show …
This article will explain how to create a simple coordinate system using PowerPoint and shapes. Coordinate systems are widely used in math learning and classroom. You can create your own Cartesian coordinate system in PowerPoint or import it from a graphics template. To design the grid we were using shapes. Just need to add a …
Here we will show you how to draw a light bulb graphic in PowerPoint. Lightbulbs are widely used in infographics and business presentations, as a metaphor for bright & new ideas, being smart, etc. The main advantage of creating this light bulb in PowerPoint is that it can be fully customizable for your own needs. Furthermore, you …
You can use the nudge shortcut in PowerPoint to move objects by a few pixels. This tool, along with the PowerPoint Align tools, are one of the most powerful tools for presentation designers toward making pixel-perfect slides. Moving the objects and PowerPoint shapes by small pixels let you control more precisely the position of a object within …
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 …
If you want to use shape operation commands like Union, Subtract, Intersect and more while using Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 for Mac, then here we will show where to find these commands. How to make a group of shapes in Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 for Mac? In Microsoft Office for Windows we already covered how to intersect or join …
PowerPoint 2013 comes with a nice Eye Dropper feature that let you pick any color from the design and get the RGB values. This way you can create slide designs based in the corporate identity or using the colors you want. In PowerPoint for Mac there is no such feature, however you can still continue …
In many of our old articles you can learn how to use combine shapes feature in PowerPoint to apply set operations to your shapes. This is a great tool to work with shapes since let you create awesome diagrams and PowerPoint graphics that are easy to edit, resize or change the colors. Today we will …