Remove fill from shapes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
OS: Windows 7 and higher
After learning how to add different
fills for shapes in PowerPoint 2013, now its time to learn
how to remove any fill from a shape so that your shape only has an outline without a fill. Whenever you
insert a new shape into a PowerPoint slide, it is filled with a solid color
by default (or the default 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, look at
Figure 1, where you can see a rectangle with no fill, and a red outline, this focuses the part of the picture that has to be
highlighted. It is in scenarios like these where it can be useful to learn how to remove any fill.
Figure 1: Flower highlighted using a rectangle with no fill
In this tutorial, we'll show you how you can remove the fill from a shape in PowerPoint 2013:
Open your presentation and select the shape that you want to format.
Alternatively, if you want to start from scratch, launch PowerPoint. Most of the time, PowerPoint will open with a new slide in a presentation, you can change the slide layout to Blank by selecting the Home tab | Layout | Blank option. Then, insert a shape and select it.
See Also:
No Fill in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows
No Fill for Shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac
No Fill for Shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
No Fill in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows
No Fill in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows
No Fill in PowerPoint 2003 for Windows
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