Shape Creation in PP 2010

Jan 11, 2012

I was watching a Learning Mag webinar where Tom was the presenter from August 2010. In it, Tom talked about taking two different PP shapes and joining them to make a new shape or a cutout. His screen showed part of the toolbar to do this that I'm not able to find. Can anyone help me out?

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blair parkin

over 12 years ago01/11/12 at 4:19 pm (UTC)

Hi Joyce

The Combine Shapes option doesn't appear as a standard toolbar, but PowerPoint 2010 allows you to create your own custom toolbars/ribbons:

Got to File > Options > Customise Ribbon
In the Right Drop Down (Customise the Ribbon) select Tool Tabs
Select Format (under Drawing Tools)
Click the New Group button at the bottom
In the Left Drop down select All Commands
Scroll down to Combine Shapes
Click on the ADD button in the centre
Right click on the New Group and rename to something cool like Combine Shapes
Click on OK to save

This will now appear whenever you have shapes on your slide

Joyce Hensen
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over 12 years ago01/12/12 at 7:19 am (UTC)

Thank you!

Emilie Verhovshek

over 9 years ago12/09/14 at 6:09 pm (UTC)

This is what i needed as well, Just saw Tom's screencast regarding callouts and this was key to be able to create what he was discussing, he mentioned his earlier blog post about how to do this but without a search feature on his blog it is hard to find anything. Thank you!

Shape Creation in PP 2010

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