PowerPoint has a lot of great preset shapes, but sometimes what you really need is a custom shape tailored-made for your presentation. If you’re looking to go beyond the Freeform Tool to create more complex custom shapes, we’ve created a new feature in PowerPoint 2010 calledCombine Shapes...
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).
Now, with your new ‘Shapes’ group selected, scroll down the left-hand column until you get to these four shape menu items. ‘Shape Combine’, Shape Intersect’, Shape Subtract’ and ‘Shape Union’. If you can’t find them it will be because you forgot to select ‘Commands Not in t...
The Shape Union command is one of the four new Shape commands that are not visible by default inPowerPoint 2010 for Windows. You need to enable them as explained inAdd Combine Shapes Commands to the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)inPowerPoint 2010 for Windows. Thereafter, follow these steps: Sele...
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You can also resize the placeholder. Explore ourResizing Shapestutorial to learn more. Although the link provided is for resizing shapes, you can follow the same steps to resize placeholders. Additionally, you can use PowerPoint's Combine Shapes feature to create amazingly shaped picture placeholders...
Create custom shapes with the Combine Shapes toolbar This is a great new gadget for 2010 which advances what you can draw – and draw well – in PowerPoint. As it’s an advanced feature (see screenshot), you have to add it to your Ribbon via PowerPoint Options like this: ...
Merging shapes Create custom shapes and graphics with tools to combine, fragment, intersect, or subtract any two shapes. Mobile productivity on every device Try Office mobile apps and get more done on the go. Create, edit, and share your work anywhere, across all your devices. ...
In Microsoft 2010, the fragment feature is not available, but you can gain access to other Merge Shape features such as Shape Union, Shape Combine, Shape Intersect, and Shape Subtract by going into PowerPoint settings. Follow the steps below to gain access to Combine Shapes. ...
With the Merge Shapes tool, you can take two or more shapes and select whether you want to union, combine, fragment, intersect, or subtract them. Improved Smart Guides Whereas PowerPoint 2010 introduced smart guides—sometimes called “whiskers”—to help you align objects on the screen, ...