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When you insert shapes within a PowerPoint slide, you will notice that all shapes you insert contain the same fill. Most of the time, the shapes may contain a solid color fill. Similarly, you may insert hundreds of shapes and they all have this same default fill, have you ever wanted to change this fill to something else?
Before we explore changing fills, it is important to understand that the default fill you see for new, inserted shapes is influenced by the Theme applied to your presentation, all new presentations have a simple Theme applied to them, this Theme decides the default color or style for the new shape. Thus, all new shapes that you insert will have the same fill.
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Tagged as: 08-01, Fills for Shapes, Fills Lines and Effects, PowerPoint Tutorials, Shape Fills
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Microsoft Office is one of the most popular Office suites released so far by Microsoft. Even after so many years, it continues to be one of the major programs still in use. However, after using the Office programs such as PowerPoint, Word, and Excel repeatedly, there may be times when these applications face some serious issues such as crashes, corrupted files, etc. And in some scenarios, you may not be able to run any Office application. At this point in time, you may wish to perform some magical process that will resolve the issue.
Fortunately there is an easy way to resolve these issues and it’s called a Repair installation.
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Tagged as: Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials, Repair Install Update PowerPoint and Office
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While PowerPoint lets you attach a connector to any slide object, these connectors can only be attached to wherever you see an anchor point on the slide object. The good news is that you can add new anchor points for shapes and text boxes. For text placeholders though, you cannot add new anchor points. If you need more anchor points for pictures, it is suggested that you use any shape as a container for a picture fill, and add anchor points as required for the container shape. We have now established that you can add new anchor points for shapes (and text boxes) so that your connectors can be linked to exactly where you want them to be!
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Tagged as: Connectors, PowerPoint Tutorials, Shapes
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PowerPoint provides plenty of options to format Shape Lines, and this tutorial explores an attribute that’s rarely associated with shape lines but can provide a surprisingly different look, especially when applied to lines that are thicker in weight. This attribute, Gradient Lines is not accessible from the Shape Line gallery in the Ribbon but directly from the Format Shape Task Pane.
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Tagged as: 08-02, Fills Lines and Effects, PowerPoint Tutorials, Shape Lines
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By default, all text that you add within PowerPoint may be filled up with a solid color. And while that’s predictable and good, there are some other options that you may want to explore, especially for title text or anything that uses text in a larger point size. One alternative is text filled with a gradient—this can look contemporary and classic, or even ghastly and gaudy!
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.
Gradient Fill for Text in PowerPoint 2013
Gradient Fill for Text in PowerPoint 2010
Gradient Fill for Text in PowerPoint 2011
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Tagged as: 05-07, PowerPoint Tutorials, Text and Fonts, WordArt (incl Text Fills; Lines; and Effects)
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