Special Edition Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

Chapter 15. Working with Shapes and Objects

Patrice-Anne Rutledge

In this chapter

• Exploring Shape Creation and Formatting 260

• Inserting Shapes 260

• Applying a Shape Quick Style 264

• Modifying and Enhancing Shapes 265

• Using the Format Shape Dialog Box 272

• Manipulating Objects 273

• Troubleshooting 281

• Design Corner: Enhancing Presentations with Formatting Effects 281

Exploring Shape Creation and Formatting

A shape is an object you can place on a slide, such as a line, arrow, rectangle, circle, square, callout, and so forth. You can quickly insert a basic shape in your presentation, but after you use PowerPoint for a little while, you’ll probably want to reformat it—that is, change the way it looks.

PowerPoint includes so many shape creation and formatting ...