Formatting Objects in PowerPoint 2016 Part 2
During this Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 training tutorial video, we will continue discussing how to format objects on your PowerPoint presentation. We will walk you through some of the commonly used drawing tools such as shape fill, shape outline and shape effects.
Okay welcome back. We’re still in module six where we’re talking about formatting objects. And we’re in section three but now we’re in the second part. So I wanted to go ahead and finish up talking to you about all those different formatting options that you have.
Okay. So when we left off we had actually put a picture inside of one of our objects. So let’s talk a little bit more about working with some of those different fills that we have. Now I’m going to go back to the one that says Campus here and I’m going to go back to Drawing Tools, Shape Fill.
Now you might have noticed that you can also put a gradient inside of your object. Now a gradient is just a lighter or a darker variation of the particular color you already have chosen for your object. So you can see that some of these actually have a darker color in the middle and it gets lighter towards the outside or vice versa when you look at some of the darker variations. Notice also if you want to take it totally out you can say that you don’t want a gradient at all by choosing No Gradient.
Now the last option you have under Shape Fill here is your textures. Now textures are these different looks that you can put inside of your object. They have a textured effect. You’ve got a paper bag effect which is kind of cool. You’ve got a fish fossil. This one here is a blue one. It’s called denim. So you can kind of see the different options you have. Now I’m just going to go ahead and leave it on the paper bag for now and you can see how it looks like a paper bag.
So those are the quick, easy options you have under your Shape Fill. Now something I want you to know about all of these is you’re going to have additional options for each one. So just kind of hold that thought for just a few minutes.
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Now we talked about the fill. We talked about the outlining. Let’s talk a little bit about your shape effects.
Now I’m going to go down and click on this particular object here. Now they have some preset ones you can choose from. Notice if you just move your mouse over the different presets here you’ve got different ones you can pick. I’ll pick this preset nine.
You can also put a shadowed effect on your object. Now they have outer shadows which go on the outside of your object. You can kind of see a little shadowed effect right there. Also under shadows they’ve got the inner ones and then the perspective. The perspectives lie on the ground. And you can kind of see the shadow right back here.
Now in addition to a shadow you can pick a reflection. So if you want to see a reflection of your object there’s different ones you can pick from. You can kind of see these here. And let me just move this over here to show you so you can really see it. I’ll move this out of the way. But see that’s a reflection of your object down here.
Alright you can also pick a glow. So if you wanted to have a soft glow you can have one around your object. And they come in different colors. Also if you wanted to have soft edges you can choose softer edges. You can see that you’ve got 10 points, you’ve got 25 point, just different point sizes for your edges. You can also have a beveled look. So you can kind of see some of these. That one’s pretty cool.
And then the last one at the bottom is a three-dimensional rotation. Now let me just do that on a different object. I’ll pick this one. So when I click 3-D Rotation you can see I can rotate my object in any of these directions that you see here. Okay?
Alright I’m going to undo that but you see you can rotate your objects.
So those are going to be your quick formatting options. Your fills, your outlines and your effects. Now we’re going to take all this a step further because I want to show you that for each of these you’ve got a lot of little options that have to do with those.
Okay see this arrow where it says Shape Styles and you can format your shape? This is going to turn on an area on the right where you can work with you fill, you can work with your effects, you can work with size and properties, or with pictures. So I’m going to start with fill.
Now some of these options we were able to get to up here but they’ve taken these a lot further. So for example with solid fill we already know we can change our color and we can change our transparency. So we can have any color we like here. Notice the gradient fill.
We’ve already talked about the fact that you’ve got these preset gradients you can pick from if you like any of these. But you can also have a different type. So if you want it to be more rectangular or you want that color to be more of what they call path you can kind of see those in there. You can see there’s more white in the middle of this one and the green around the edges.
Now also you can work with direction depending on which color you’ve chosen. And that’s going to be the direction that the colors flow within your object and the angle and then the gradient stops. Now here’s what gradient stops do. This particular one has green and white in it. I can slide this slider a little bit to the right and see more of the green or more of the white or vice versa.
So see how you can move them to the left and move the colors this way and your colors move in a little bit towards the center. So you just have to play with these and get it to the exact way you want it to look. Here’s your color down here and your position. Also you can make this a little more or less bright or you can work with the transparencies.
Now notice the line down here. When we talked about the line around the object. If I wanted a solid line I can choose the color for my line. We kind of already talked about this. I can choose a weight or a width or a thickness. So remember we talked about the higher the number the more thicker the line is. We can have a compound type. So if you wanted to have double lines you could instead of just one single line.
You can have rounded corners or square corners. And you can have a join type if you want it to be more of a miter type type or a beveled. But you can see there’s a ton of different options right here. And the reason you have these arrow types is sometimes a line you draw can have arrowheads and then these would be available so you can choose a different arrowhead types you might want.
Okay let me scroll back up to the top here. So you can see there’s a lot of options. Now the second one is the effects we talked about. Remember the shadows and the reflections and the glows? Well again we’ve got these predetermined ones we saw from our dropdowns but now we can actually go through and change the colors.
So if you remember this one where we had a shadow. What if I went through and changed the color of my shadow? Then I might be able to see it a little bit better. Or you can see it right there. Or if you changed the glow, the reflection, all of these things we talked about.
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You can change your three-dimensional format if you want down here near the bottom. Tons of different options. And also your 3-D Rotation at the very bottom. So you want to go in here and play with all these options because there’s so many things in here. So, so many. Okay?
So let me go ahead and wrap that up right now because I want to give you time to kind of go through every single one of these and play with them. And remember this, just a little something you can do just to get you thinking a little bit. If you ever have a picture that you want to work with and you’re not doing a PowerPoint presentation.
Let’s say it’s something like maybe you’re working on a website and you have a particular picture but you want to use some of these PowerPoint options to change the picture. Feel free to copy the picture into PowerPoint and then use all of these options and you’ll get some really cool effects when you do that.
So we’re going to be talking more about pictures in module seven. But before we talk about pictures we’ve got to talk about how to arrange these objects so they look a little bit nicer when you’re working with your slides. So I’m going to see you over in section four.
Simon Calder
Chris “Simon” Calder was working as a Project Manager in IT for one of Los Angeles’ most prestigious cultural institutions, LACMA.He taught himself to use Microsoft Project from a giant textbook and hated every moment of it. Online learning was in its infancy then, but he spotted an opportunity and made an online MS Project course - the rest, as they say, is history!
