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By: Belen

Belen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:28:17 +0000

I find power point 2007 gradient filling very difficult to use. In 2003 I could choose which colours I wanted to mix, but now I can only choose 1 colour or preset colours. Do you have any tips? thanks!

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By: Stuart Tompkins

Stuart Tompkins — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:30:44 +0000

Wow! Great powerpoint tips … have just created around 100 training slides for technical training on disk storage and I can’t wait to try out some of these techniques. You have literally answered some of those ‘I wonder if…’ questions, but on a deadline don’t have time to research right then and there. I’ve bookmarked this forum, it’s the best I’ve seen, and nice people with none of the atrocious behavior seen in so many blogs etc. Thank god for some PROFESSIONALs, what a breath of fresh air!

I don’t have Articulate yet, but I’m very enthused by what I see, it is unbeleivable how far these tools have come. I’m simply stunned by what can be done now.

By: tom

tom — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:17:19 +0000

@RJH: In PowerPoint 2007, you cab convert the shape to freeform. In PowerPoint 2003, you have to create the rectangle with the freeform tool, which is pretty easy to do.

By: RJH

RJH — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:19:33 +0000

To make the curved border, you said you “just converted a rectangle to a freeform object and edited the points.” I have Powerpoint 2003. How do I convert the rectangle to a freeform object?

By: Stella Anderson

Stella Anderson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:45:24 +0000

Thanks for the great tips, Tom! I always learn something new from your blog.

By: tom

tom — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:19:19 +0000

Apparently, Microsoft took out the pattern fill. However, I did find this online.

You can mimic this effect by creating small bitmap or Windows Metafile Format (WMF) pictures of the effect that you want and then filling your shape with those.

After adding the image as a picture fill, right click the shape and then on the Fill tab, click Picture or texture fill.

Select the Tile picture as texture check box and then set the tiling options that you want. If you have access to Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, you can save a picture of the pattern fill that you want to use.

Draw a small square, fill it with the pattern that you want, right-click it, and then on the shortcut menu, click Save as Picture.