Shapes in PowerPoint have three major attributes: fills, outlines, and effects. We have already explored how you can use. In this next section of this series, you will learn how you can work with shape outlines (lines) in. For all practical purposes, shape outline attributes in PowerPoint 2011 include: • Line color, (covered on this page) •, •, •, •, and • (i.e. No Line) In this tutorial, we'll explore the basics and thereafter provide links to specific, individual tutorials so that you can get acquainted with more advanced stuff. To control the gridlines, choose Grid Settings from the Align dropdown. These settings let you enable snap-to grids, snap-to objects, adjust the size of the gridlines, and more. 6 days ago - Replied on June 12, 2011. Select the Page Layout menu option. All the way to the right you'll see 'Align' The 'View Gridlines' setting is in there. Let us start by exploring what an outline is. First of all, we are talking about shape outlines here, and not. Now a shape outline is either of these two: • In a closed shape: The perimeter areas of closed shapes, such as rectangles, circles, etc. (shown on the left in Figure 1, below) • In an open shape: The line itself, of regular line shapes, such as straight lines, curves, scribbles, or any other shape that is not closed (shown on the right in Figure 1, below) This establishes that formatting of outline options doesn't require a closed area. Figure 1 shows a thick line around both a closed shape, and an open shape. Figure 1: Samples of lines (outlines) in closed and open shapes As far as formatting any outline is concerned, it really doesn't matter if the selected shape is open or closed, because the process to do that is the same. However, there's one exception to the rule: you cannot add arrowheads to outlines around closed shapes, because arrowheads only show in open shapes (like the sample on the right side of Figure 1 above). We'll cover arrowheads in a subsequent tutorial. ![]() Whenever a new shape is inserted in a PowerPoint slide, you can see that it has an outline by default. Follow these steps to explore the outline options, such as the color, weight, dash, etc. • Select the shape that you want to change the line attributes for. Alternatively, if you just want to follow this tutorial step-by-step, launch PowerPoint 2011. You will see the which allows you to set all attributes of your new presentation, such as a preset Theme or template. Make selections or just click Cancel in this gallery to open a blank presentation with a new slide, PowerPoint 2011 users can of this slide to Blank by selecting the Layout| Blank option within the Home tab of the. • Within the Home tab of the Ribbon, locate the Insert group, and click the Shape button (highlighted in red within Figure 2) to access the Shape gallery with different options that you can see in Figure 2. In this gallery, select the Lines and Connectors option to access the Lines sub-gallery, and in this sub-gallery, select the Line shape (refer to Figure 2 again). You can also choose a closed shape if you want to make changes to it's outline. Figure 2: Line shape selected in the Shape gallery • Then, click and drag on the slide to insert the shape, or click once on the slide to. Select the inserted line (or closed shape) so that the Ribbon area now shows the Format tab, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 3. Activate this Ribbon tab by clicking on it. Figure 3: Format tab of the Ribbon. Note: Format tab is a Contextual tab. These tabs are special tabs in the that are not visible all the time, they only make an appearance when you are working with a particular slide object which can be edited using special options. • From the Format tab, locate the Shape Styles group, and then click the Line button to view the Line drop-down gallery that you can see in Figure 4. Figure 4: Line drop-down gallery The options in Line drop-down gallery are explained below, as marked in Figure 4, you'll need to choose any one of these options for the outline: A. No Line Choose this option to remove the shape outline altogether from the selected shape. If you have selected a line (open shape), then choosing the No Line option will make the line to completely disappear!. Theme Colors Here you can select any of the colors which are from the active Theme of the presentation. You can also select any of the 5 tints or shades for any Theme color. Standard Colors You can choose any of the ten standard colors available, these ten standard colors are just choices of colors that PowerPoint believes to be widely used.
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