PowerPoint Stress Relief from eSlide

Issue 44

6 Tips for Whipping Your PowerPoint Presentations into Shape in 2015

eSlide Explains How to Produce the Most Streamlined, Effective Presentations

Now that the overindulgence of the holidays is behind us, the mind turns to getting back into shape. At eSlide, we like to focus our fitness on PowerPoint.

It's our mission to help you deliver the most effective, streamlined custom PowerPoint design possible. This means knowing what to put in, what to leave out, and how to decide which is which. Here we offer our quick guide to whipping your presentations into shape.

eSlide's Quick Tip of the Month

Merge Shapes/Accessing the Merge Shape commands

To access the Merge Shape commands you first need to insert some shapes on your PowerPoint slide. Make sure you place the shapes in a way so that they overlap each other.
When the shapes are selected, you will see the Drawing Tools Format tab on the Ribbon. Make sure that this contextual tab is activated.
Within the Drawing Tools Format tab, locate the Insert Shapes group and click the Merge Shapes button. This brings up the Merge Shapes drop-down gallery.
These five Merge Shapes options work in different ways:

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