How to Make an Outline Box in Powerpoint TUTORIAL

How to Make an Outline Box in Powerpoint

Lesson 17: Shapes

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Introduction

Shapes are a bang-up way to make your presentations more than interesting. PowerPoint gives you lot several shapes to cull from, and they can be customized to suit your needs, using your own colour palette, preferences, and more than. While you may not need shapes in every presentation yous create, they can add visual appeal.

Optional: Download our practise presentation.

Watch the video beneath to learn more than about shapes in PowerPoint.

To insert a shape:

1. Select the Insert tab, and then click the Shapes command in the Illustrations grouping. A drib-down bill of fare of shapes will appear.
2. Select the desired shape.

   

3. Click and drag in the desired location to add the shape to the slide.

   

Modifying a shape or text box

When y'all click a shape or text box, handles will appear that allow you manipulate the shape. There are several types of handles.

• Sizing handles: Click and elevate the sizing handles until the shape or text box is the desired size. You can use the corner sizing handles to modify the height and width at the same time.

  

• Rotation handle: Click and elevate the rotation handle to rotate the shape.

  

• Yellow handles: Some shapes accept ane or more yellow handles that tin be used to customize the shape. For example, with the sun shape, you lot can alter the proportions of the shape.

  

In improver to resizing, customizing, and rotating shapes, y'all tin align, lodge, and group them. To learn more, review our Aligning, Ordering, and Grouping Objects lesson.

Formatting shapes and text boxes

PowerPoint allows you to modify shapes and text boxes in a variety of ways and then you tin can tailor them to your projects. You can change shapes and text boxes into different shapes, format their manner and color, and add furnishings.

To change the shape manner:

Choosing a shape manner allows you to apply preset colors and effects to quickly change the appearance of your shape or text box. These options volition depend on the colors that are part of your current theme.

1. Select the shape or text box y'all want to change.
2. On the Format tab, click the More than drop-downwards arrow in the Shape Styles grouping.

   

3. A drop-down menu of styles volition announced. Select the style yous desire to use.

   

4. The shape or text box will appear in the selected style.

To change the shape make full color:

1. Select the shape or text box you want to change.
2. On the Format tab, click the Shape Fill driblet-downward arrow. The Shape Make full menu appears.
3. Move the mouse over the various colors. Select the color you desire to use. To view additional options, select More Make full Colors.

   

4. The shape or text box will appear in the selected color.

If you want to use a dissimilar blazon of fill, select Gradient or Texture from the driblet-downwards bill of fare. You can also select No Fill to make information technology transparent.

To change the shape outline:

1. Select the shape or text box y'all want to modify.
2. On the Format tab, click the Shape Outline drib-down arrow. The Shape Outline menu will appear.
3. Select the color you desire to use. If y'all want to make the outline transparent, select No Outline.

   

4. The shape or text box will appear in the selected outline colour.

From the driblet-downwards menu, yous can change the outline colour, weight (thickness), and whether it is a dashed line.

To add together shape furnishings:

1. Select the shape or text box yous want to change.
2. On the Format tab, click the Shape Effects drib-down pointer. In the menu that appears, hover the mouse over the way of effect yous want to add, and then select the desired preset effect.

   

3. The shape volition appear with the selected event.

To further adjust your shape effects, select Options at the end of each bill of fare. The Format Shape pane volition announced, allowing yous to customize the effects.

To alter to a different shape:

1. Select the shape or text box you want to change. The Format tab will appear.
2. On the Format tab, click the Edit Shape command. In the carte du jour that appears, hover the mouse over Modify Shape and select the desired shape.

   

3. The new shape will appear.

   

If you lot want, you lot tin enter text in a shape. When the shape appears in your document, you tin can but begin typing. You can then utilize the formatting options on the Home tab to modify the font, font size, or color of the text.

Challenge!

1. Open our practice presentation.
2. On slide v, titled Stress Management Tips, insert a Folded Corner shape from the Basic Shapes category.
3. Rotate the shape slightly.
4. Alter the shape make full to golden.
5. Modify the shape outline to No Outline.
6. Use shape furnishings to add together a shadow from the Outer category.
7. Add the post-obit text to the shape: Brand stress relief a priority!
8. Change the shape to one of your choice. Note: You may have to resize the shape in guild to meet all of the text.
9. When you're finished, your slide should look something like this:

   

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