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PowerPoint provides many types of fills for shapes, slide backgrounds, and even charts and tables. Picture fills may appear convincing or confusing depending upon the type of picture you use for the fill. Do remember that using a detailed or crowded picture as a fill for a small shape will get you no awards for slide design! It is best to use pictures that have one focused object or are subtle in nature for this purpose. Any shape on your slide in PowerPoint can be provided with a picture fill in the same way as you add or change solid fills or gradient fills.
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A fill is something that is contained within a PowerPoint slide object such as a shape. Some shapes may contain a solid fill, a picture, or even nothing. The last option is called “No Fill”, and results in a shape that’s entirely transparent unless it has a visible outline. Typically our tutorials address shapes but the techniques remain similar for almost all slide objects. These links provide more details depending upon the version of PowerPoint you may be using
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Whenever you insert a new shape into a PowerPoint slide, you can see that it is filled with a solid color and has an outline by default (this may differ depending on the Theme applied to your presentation). You can remove the fill of the shape as well as the outline. Whatever you do, make sure that you either remove the fill or the outline because if you remove both, then your shape will no longer be visible.
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PowerPoint provides many types of fills for shapes, slide backgrounds, and even charts and tables. Typically our tutorials address shapes but the techniques remain similar for almost all slide objects. Among the fill types, the most popular is a solid color fill that applies a uniform, single color fill.
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Tagged as: 08-01, Fills for Shapes, Fills Lines and Effects, PowerPoint Tutorials
Once you insert shapes on a slide, you may realize that it’s not the perfect size. Do you want it larger, or a wee bit smaller? However you want your shapes resized, it’s easy to make the size change in a jiffy, right inside PowerPoint. Like most Microsoft Office programs, PowerPoint follows the concept of selection, then action. So, the first thing you need to do to a shape that you want to be resized is to select it! Any shape that is selected shows several handles
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.
Resizing Shapes in PowerPoint 365
Resizing Shapes in PowerPoint 2016
Resizing Shapes in PowerPoint 2013
Resizing Shapes in PowerPoint 2010
Resizing Shapes in PowerPoint 365
Resizing Shapes in PowerPoint 2016
Resizing Shapes in PowerPoint 2011
Resizing Shapes in PowerPoint for the Web
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