Graphics in PowerPoint 2000

AutoShapes

AutoShapes are a tremendous timesaver when it comes to adding images into your PowerPoint presenation. There are different categories of shapes already created, such as lines, banners, basic shapes, connectors, and flowcharts. Clicking on the AutoShapes button brings up these categories.

As an example, we'll draw a couple of Basic Shapes. Here are the Basic Shapes.

We'll start with the cube AutoShape (2nd one in the fourth row)

To use the AutoShape, click on the button desired, then click-and-drag the AutoShape on your slide. (NOTE: like the ClipArt and imported pictures, you can hold down [SHIFT] to keep the shape proportional and [CTRL] to draw it about its center) Here is the cube in a slide.

The teal color was chosen as part of the color scheme for this background. If you wish to change the color, select the image and choose the Fill Color button in the Drawing toolbar. The arrow will let you select different colors and even create custom colors.

Note the yellow diamond at the upper-left side of the cube. The yellow diamond appears on three-dimensional shapes to control the depth of the image. Here's what happens when the diamond is used to reduce the depth of the image.

The cube maintains its height and width, but the depth of it is reduced.

If you have an AutoShape selected, you can add text to it just by typing. We'll add some text to this image.