Shapes

Formatting Shape Outlines in PowerPoint 2010

PowerPoint shapes are a powerful feature in PowerPoint that allows you to make better presentations with nice graphics and it is a good alternative to pictures and images. There are many benefits but also disadvantages by using shapes instead of images, but if we change the shapes outline in PowerPoint or shape properties we can …

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 …

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 …

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 …