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Learn about different types of shapes in PowerPoint Online. In many ways, shapes are the building blocks of PowerPoint slide design.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint Online
OS: Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X
What does the word “shape” mean to you? Do you imagine a square, a circle, a heart, or even a smiley face? Yes, all those are shapes, as are the hundreds of other recognizable outlines or figures that we call shapes in our daily conversations. Shapes play a significant role within slides you create for your PowerPoint presentation. In more ways that you may want to count, shapes are like the building blocks of almost anything you do on your PowerPoint slides. PowerPoint Online provides hundreds of shapes efficiently categorized into 8 types. You can do so much with these shapes such as formatting them with fills, lines, and effects. This tutorial explores the various types of shapes available within PowerPoint.
To look at these different types of shapes, choose the Insert tab (or even the Home tab) of the Ribbon and click the Shapes button to bring up a drop-down gallery, as shown in Figure 1.
Use the scrollbar on the right to access more Shape categories, that you can see in Figure 2.
PowerPoint Online sorts these different shape types into eight categories, as explained below:
Other than the categories mentioned above, the Shapes drop-down gallery also includes a Shapes category right on top that lists any shapes that you use often (see Figure 11). All these shapes are also visible in their normal location in the Shapes drop-down gallery.
See Also:
Types of Shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows
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