Advanced Drawing Techniques: Add or Delete Points (Vertexes) for Shapes in PowerPoint

Created: Monday, June 25, 2012, posted by Geetesh at 4:34 am

Updated: Monday, September 5, 2022 at 1:41 pm

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The Edit Points option gives you control over how you want a shape to look, but sometimes you might find it difficult to edit a certain segment in a shape because there are no points available to manipulate. Conversely, there could be far too many points! PowerPoint provides a simple solution for this problem: you can add and delete vertexes from a shape.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Add or Delete Points (Vertexes) for Shapes in PowerPoint 2016

Add or Delete Points (Vertexes) for Shapes in PowerPoint 2013

Add or Delete Points (Vertexes) for Shapes in PowerPoint 2010

Add or Delete Points (Vertexes) for Shapes in PowerPoint 2007

Add or Delete Points (Vertexes) for Shapes in PowerPoint 2003

Apple Mac

Add or Delete Points (Vertexes) for Shapes in PowerPoint 2011

Add or Delete Points (Vertexes) for Shapes in PowerPoint

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