Shapes

Breaking Cliparts into Shapes in PowerPoint 2010

This article will explain how to break cliparts in PowerPoint so you can edit the shapes separately. This can be very useful if you want to insert cliparts in your slides and then edit the shapes or change the colors and styles. Also you can use this technique to use iconic illustrations in PowerPoint slides. …

Design a Skew Image in PowerPoint 2010

Inspired in the article posted on Whatmakesblog, we can see how to design a skew image in PowerPoint 2010 just using shapes and Format Shape options. This can be really helpful to make 3D objects for our PowerPoint presentations. You can transform a normal picture or shape in PowerPoint into skew image by using the Perspective …

Reroute Connectors in PowerPoint

Reroute Connectors is a feature available in PowerPoint that helps to find the shortest path between two connected objects with lines. Having the line selected (once it is connected between objects or shapes) you can click on Reroute Connector to automatically reroute the lines finding the shortest path. In this example we have used different …

Shapes in PowerPoint 2010

Autoshapes or just Shapes in recent versions of PowerPoint are a great drawing tool to create PowerPoint graphics or cliparts from existing shapes and designs that you can combine to make awesome slides. Working with shapes in PowerPoint is easy but you should know in advance about what are the dots appearing when you are in …

How to Insert Shapes in PowerPoint

By using shapes you can create nice graphics for your PPT presentation templates. Shapes are very useful to decorate your slides with nice colorful graphics or to make diagrams. You can also combine simple shapes to get complex shapes by using set operations (union, intersect, subtract) and get nice results like the dice shape in …

Connect Arrows in PowerPoint 2010

Connecting arrows in PowerPoint 2010 can be challenging for anyone newbie who need to make graphs or diagrams. While connecting shapes is much easier since each shape has its own anchor points, connecting single arrows together can be challenging in advance. But earlier we talked about how to connect lines in PowerPoint in the article …

Creating 3D Objects in PowerPoint 2010

This video explains how to create 3D Objects in PowerPoint 2010 using Shapes. By using basic shapes we can get 3D objects with perspective including cylinder, prisms, and any other variant. This video will help to understand how to design 3D objects using PowerPoint and 3D Format nad 3D Rotation options in Format Shape. Alternatively …