Learn how to select and deselect single and multiple shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. You'll be surprised to know how you can use one of these techniques, or combine them to attain selection mastery.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
OS: Mac OS X
PowerPoint follows the process of selection, then action for any slide object on a slide. If you cannot select an object, then you cannot do anything to modify it in any way. Although this tutorial explains how you can select shapes on a slide, the process works the same way for any other slide object.
Just click a shape to select it. Figure 1 shows a single shape selected on the slide. To deselect the shape, click on an empty area on the slide, or you can Shift + click on the selected shape.
Figure 1: A single shape selected on the slide
To select a shape that's behind some other shape and cannot be selected easily, press the Tab key to select all the shapes on the slide one after the other, until the Tab key selects the shape you want. If you pressed the Tab key quickly multiple times, and missed selecting a shape, you can press Shift + Tab to reverse the entire tab selection process.
To select more than one shape, use any of these options:
See Also:
Selecting Shapes: Select and Deselect Shapes in PowerPoint (Index Page)
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