Advanced Microsoft® Office PowerPoint™ 2007: Insights and Advice from the Experts

7. Working with Shapes

In This Chapter

• Insertion Tricks
• Drawing Tools Format Tab
• Creating Custom Shapes
• Using Connectors to Save Time
• What Do Those Yellow Diamonds Do?
• The Brand New Selection Pane
• Embedding Objects from Other Applications
• Grouping Shapes and Objects

Most PowerPoint beginners rarely use them at all, but mastering the art of vector shapes is one of the keys to being a PowerPoint power user. Though shapes seem deceptively simple, there’s a great deal of power under the covers.

Insertion Tricks

One of the first things you see when launching PowerPoint is the Shapes gallery or drop-down (see Figure 7.1) located on the Home ribbon in the Drawing group.

Figure 7.1 The Shapes group. The shapes in the Recently Used Shapes section ...