As a user, I've often found myself struggling to merge shapes in PowerPoint. The steps can be confusing, and the results are often unpredictable. In this tutorial, I'll walk you through the process step-by-step, and share some tips and tricks along the way. By the end of this tutori...
Why Should You Merge Shapes in PowerPoint? Merging shapes in PowerPoint is a feature that allows you to quickly and easily create your own custom shapes by combining one or more standard shapes together. For example, if you wanted to create an L shape, you could merge two standard rectangular...
Find some open space to add merge shapes in PPT. Let’s get started by adding the first shape. To do that, find theInserttab. It’s located on PowerPoint’s ribbon, the row of menu tabs across the top of your screen. ClickInsert, and then look at the new menu options. ...
To illustrate this section, let’s go boolean by boolean, starting with Union. Starting from our original shapes from the prior section, let’s locate the option to merge shapes in PPT slides. Select the shapes you want to use, then go to theShape Formattab. Then locateInsert Shapesand s...
PowerPoint 2010 comes with a great new feature that is surprisingly hard to find: the Combine Shapes tool. You can use this tool to combine existing shapes into new ones using the principles of Boolean geometry (more about that later).
Group shapes is a functionality in PowerPoint that helps to merge shapes, via set operations such as Union, Intersect, Substract and more. With Group Shapes, you can easily combine multiple shapes into a single grouped entity. This can be helpful when you need to create complex shapes or when...
To merge shapes in PowerPoint, you’ll first need to insert the shapes you wish to merge. To do so, head over to the “Insert” tab and select “Shapes” found in the “Illustrations” group. On the drop-down menu that appears, browse through the large library of shapes and select th...
How do you glue shapes together in PowerPoint? Follow the steps below to merge shapes in PowerPoint: Hold the Shift key down to select both shapes. Then Click the Shape Format tab, click the Merge Shape button and click Combine from the menu. ...
PowerPoint makes it easy to add dynamic shapes to your slides. Review an introduction to shapes, discover how to add and resize them, explore the...
How to Duplicate Shapes in PowerPoint with CTRL-D If you need to duplicate the shape more than once, then you can press CTRL-D multiple times and the object will be copied. Then, you can arrange these duplicated shapes across the slide. To organize the shapes after duplicating them, thedi...