Feb 17, 11 - Learn PowerPoint 2010: Edit Points for Shapes in PowerPoint

When you use any of the shapes available in PowerPoint, you are not limited to what their default appearance looks like. You may want to change a rectangle to a rhombus, or even edit a curved or freeform line differently. The good news is that you can do this by using the Edit Points option -- this almost makes PowerPoint a drawing program that provides you the option to play with vertexes (points), handles, etc. -- very similar to what you would do in Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW.

Feb 18, 11 - Learn PowerPoint 2010: Add or Delete Points (Vertexes) for Shapes in PowerPoint

You learned what Edit Points in PowerPoint are and how they work. These Edit Points give you control over how you want a shape to look, but sometimes you might find it difficult to edit a certain segment in a shape because there are no points available to manipulate -- or maybe there are far too many points! PowerPoint provides a simple solution for this problem -- you can add and delete vertexes from a shape.

Feb 18, 11 - Learn PowerPoint 2010: Align Shapes to Center of Slide in PowerPoint

I already showed how you can align shapes in PowerPoint 2010 -- however for alignment to work, you need to have more than one shape (or any other slide object) selected so that they can align to each other. However, you may want to align just one shape (or even a group of shapes) to the exact center of the slide. Fortunately, that is easy as explained in these steps.

Feb 23, 11 - Learn PowerPoint 2010: Types of Points (Vertexes) in PowerPoint

Every shape in PowerPoint is a combination of segments and points (vertexes) -- and these segments and vertexes are only visible in Edit Points mode. We discuss more about segments in a subsequent tutorial but for now, let me help you explore the different types of vertexes (points) in PowerPoint 2010.

Feb 24, 11 - Learn PowerPoint 2010: Edit Points - Open and Close Paths in PowerPoint

The Shapes gallery in PowerPoint consist various shapes, both open and closed. Most of the shapes in this gallery are closed shapes (rectangle, ellipse, and triangle are some of the closed shapes). There are also a few open shapes such as the straight point to point line. Some other tools let you create both open and closed shapes -- these are the Freeform Line, Curve, and Scribble tools. In addition, you can convert any closed shape to an open shape and vice versa, as you will learn in this tutorial.

Feb 24, 11 - Learn PowerPoint 2010: Apply Reflection Effects to Shapes In PowerPoint

This tutorial is a part of the series on Shape Effects in PowerPoint 2010. You have already explored the preset effects available, and also how you can apply a shadow effect to any selected shape. In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can quickly add a reflection to a shape.

Feb 25, 11 - Learn PowerPoint 2010: Advanced Reflection Options In PowerPoint

You have already seen how to apply reflection effects to the shapes in PowerPoint 2010. After you apply a reflection effect to a shape, you can edit the reflection properties to suit your creative freedom -- for instance, you can change the transparency, blur, distance etc. of the reflection, as you will learn in this tutorial.