Add Pattern Fills to Shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac
Add pattern fills to shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
Author:Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2016 for Mac
OS: Mac OS X
Pattern fills for shapes are two-color designs comprising lines, dots, dashes and checks. PowerPoint includes 48 patterns such patterns with names
like Plaid, Weaves, Shingle and Zig Zag. Pattern fills for shapes are not
included within the Shape fill drop-down gallery in PowerPoint. But you can find this option within the Format ShapeTask Pane. In this tutorial, we'll show you how you can access Pattern
fill options in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
If you want to see a sample presentation showing pattern fills in PowerPoint, scroll down to the bottom of this page.
Follow these steps to change or apply a pattern fill to a shape:
Open your presentation and select the shape that you want to
format.
Alternatively, if you want to start from scratch, launch PowerPoint 2016 for Mac. You will see the
Presentation Gallery. Here, select the
Blank Presentation to open a blank presentation with a new slide. You can
change the Slide Layout to Blank by selecting the
Home tab | Layout | Blank option. Then,
insert a shape and select it.
Right-click (or Ctrl+click) the selected shape. From the context menu that appears, choose the Format Shape option
as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Format Shape option selected
This opens the Format ShapeTask Pane that you
can see in Figure 2. Make sure that the Fill & Line tab is selected (highlighted in red
within Figure 2), then select the Pattern fill radio button (highlighted in blue
within Figure 2).
This action applies the default Pattern fill to the shape, and also accesses the Pattern gallery.
Figure 2: Pattern gallery within Format Shape Task Pane
You can see the Pattern gallery on the lower half of the Format Shape Task Pane, as shown highlighted in
green within Figure 2, above.
Click on any of the pattern styles to choose. You can select any pattern all the way from 5% to Solid diamonds.
Whichever pattern you choose, you can then change the foreground and background colors for the pattern using the Foreground and
Background color buttons that you can see in Figure 2 above. When you click any of these buttons you can see the
Colors gallery as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Colors gallery
This Colors gallery will work in the same way as it does for
Solid fills. You can change the foreground and
background colors, or just accept the default color values that PowerPoint uses.
In Figure 4 you can see that we have selected the Large grid pattern type, and also changed the foreground
and background colors.
Figure 4: Shape with pattern fill
Remember to save your presentation often.
Sample Presentation of Pattern Fill in Shape:
Click below to view this presentation on SlideShare
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