Shapes

Ink Pens in PowerPoint 2010

If you have heard about pens in PowerPoint maybe you already knew how to make annotations on the slides during the slideshow. However, it is also good to know that you can use pens even if you are not playing the slideshow. In PowerPoint 2010 you can add pens to the ribbon and make good …

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. …

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 …