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Working with different shapes and adding tables

OK, let's go ahead and make our presentations more interesting by adding different shapes, tables, or even pictures! Why wait? Let's quickly get into action.

Getting ready

No specific modules are required for this recipe; we will use the python-pptx module that was installed for the earlier recipes.

How to do it...

1. In this recipe, we will add a few shapes to our presentation. Shapes are very useful in presentations as they can represent real world objects, can indicate relations, and provide great visual feedback to the audience (who are listening to the presentation). In this recipe, we add a Home button and then a Rectangular Callout to show where our Home button is. We'll also fill custom color into ...