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Work with shapes

Work with shapes

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Work with shapes

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- [Narrator] I'm going to show you how adding shapes can make your text much more dramatic and impactful. This is great when the whole point of a presentation is to get your message across. Let's create a new blank slide right at the end. So I'll click at the end and then click new slide. I'll start by putting in an image. I'll change to the insert ribbon tab, choose pictures, and browse to find one. You can drag this image so that it's just on the first half of the slide. This leaves me with a nice blank area on the right. Let's add a shape to this and I'll put some text in between it. I could change to the insert ribbon tab and choose shapes, but on the home ribbon tab I have a whole bunch of commonly used shapes right here. Now this one is titled oval, and it looks like a circle. I can certainly get an oval. I do that by clicking and dragging with my mouse and letting go of the shape. I'm going to hit the delete key for now, because there's one neat thing that I want to show you…

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