Fills
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Last Updated: February 6th 2010
08/01/2011 09:25 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: No Fill for Shapes
After learning how to add different fills for shapes in PowerPoint 2011, now its time to learn how to remove any fill from a shape so that it contains just an outline without a fill. Whenever you insert a new shape into a PowerPoint slide, it is filled with blueish white gradient fill by default (or the fill may be different depending on the Theme applied to your presentation). Most of the time, you may leave that unaltered, but there are times you want just the outline to be visible.
07/31/2011 10:16 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Add Slide Background Fill to Shapes
You have already learned how to add different fills for shapes in PowerPoint 2011. While it may not be very obvious, you can also use your slide background as a shape fill. The Slide Background fill option is different from other shape fill options because instead of filling something into the selected shape, it makes the slide background area behind the shape visible into the selected shape.
07/28/2011 10:48 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Add Pattern Fills to Shapes
Do you need fills for shapes in PowerPoint that really contrasts well, especially when you have multiple shapes on a slide that need different types of fills? Yes, picture, gradient, or even solid fills work great -- but what happens when you need to print that slide on a black and white printer? Or if your audience includes those who have problems distinguishing between different colors? In that case, your best option is to use pattern fills. We have already explored many of the fills available for shapes in PowerPoint 2011, and in this tutorial you'll learn how you can use pattern fills -- but first, let us explore patterns a little.
07/27/2011 10:21 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Add Texture Fills to Shapes
PowerPoint's fill options for shapes are extensive -- you have already learned how to apply solid fills, gradient fills, and picture fills for shapes in PowerPoint 2011. The next fill option is texture fills, which incidentally are not too different from picture fills other than the fact that they can be tiled. PowerPoint includes a built-in library of textures, and you can also import any picture, to be used as a texture.
07/26/2011 11:45 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Add Picture Fills to Shapes
Picture fills can look great and distracting at the same time -- it all depends upon the type of picture you use for the fill. Remember using a detailed or crowded picture as a fill for a small shape will get you no awards for slide design! Any shape on your slide in PowerPoint 2011 can be provided with a picture fill in the same way that you learned to add or change solid fills or gradient fills.
07/26/2011 12:36 AM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Add Gradient Fills to Shapes
PowerPoint 2011 essentially provides five fill options: solid, picture, gradient, texture and slide background fill -- of course there's a sixth option called "No fill". We have already explored the solid fill option -- in this tutorial, you'll learn about working with gradient fills. Gradient fills are typically blended fills between two or more colors that graduate from one color to another.
07/24/2011 09:58 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Add Solid Fills to Shapes
Whenever a new shape is inserted on a slide in PowerPoint 2011, it is filled with blueish white gradient fill by default (or something else depending on the Theme of your presentation). Other than a gradient fill type, PowerPoint 2011 provides you with different fill types such as solid color fill, picture fill or a texture fill – in this tutorial, you will learn how to work with solid color fills for shapes.
07/21/2011 09:12 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Fills for Shapes
Whenever a shape is inserted within a PowerPoint 2011 slide, you will discover that it has a blueish white gradient fill (or some other fill). You may insert hundreds of shapes and they all have this same default fill, influenced by the Theme applied to your presentation. If you want, you can change the fill of any shape. You can change it to a solid color fill or even change the fill type altogether to a pattern, texture, or picture.
02/07/2011 12:44 AM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Shape Styles
PowerPoint's fill, line, and effect attributes enable users to customize the look of the presentation, but sometime it may take ages to get that perfect color coordination and even after spending time the final look may not match the Theme of the presentation. To end up with a coordinated color combination for the slide objects in your presentation, you can use the Shape Styles gallery that contains a collection of prebuilt styles. These styles are all Theme-specific, so if the presentation Theme is changed - you'll end up with new Shape Styles.
02/03/2011 09:24 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2007: Shape Styles
Although PowerPoint enables you to edit the fill, lines, and effects attributes of a shape, this is a time consuming task that may involve trying out different combinations of each attribute. Even then, the final look may not match the Theme of the presentation. That's the reason why Shape Styles is such a special feature since all you need to do choose any of these prebuilt styles, and you get an instant makeover! These styles are all Theme-specific, so if the presentation Theme is changed - you'll end up with new Shape Styles.