From the course: PowerPoint 2016 Essential Training
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Adding shapes
- You can put all sorts of shapes on a PowerPoint presentation, and use your knowledge of layering, remember bring to front and send to back, to strategically place them as callouts, to draw attention to your main point, or even be an additional layer on a graphic you already have in place. No one needs to know the shape wasn't part of the original graphic. Let's start adding some shapes. Remember this Functions slide. We created the text but we haven't really done much with it otherwise. Let's add a shape to it. From the Home ribbon tab, I can click the pull-down next to the shapes, and choose a shape for my slide. I can choose from lines, rectangles, basic shapes, arrows, equations, flowcharts, even stars and callouts. I'll choose this star and now I need to draw it onto my slide. I can click and drag with my mouse. I don't have to let go right away. I can make it longer, I can make it wider, I can make it any shape I need to. Don't worry if you can't fit the perfect size right…
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