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Using the Ink to Shape button

Using the Ink to Shape button

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Using the Ink to Shape button

- [Instructor] If you haven't used the Ink to Shape tool recently to convert inked shapes, it's gotten a bit of an overhaul in PowerPoint. If you'd like to follow along with this exercise, open the file 04_03_InkShapes located in this chapter's exercise file folder. Now, on this slide, I have two shapes already drawn. And going up to the Draw tab and looking at the Convert group, there's this little button here, Ink to Shape. Clicking on that is going to turn your cursor into a drawing cursor with the Lasso Select tool open. And when we click and drag our mouse, we can select any drawn object on our slide and convert it to a perfectly drawn shape. In this case, a perfect square. But there's an even faster way now to convert ink to shapes. In fact, let me click on the Ink to Shape button to turn that off. Now, all you really need to do is to click on the shape itself that you want to convert. And you see this little tag here? Selecting on that, you'll see two options: Ink and Convert…

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