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Provides step by step instructions on how to merge shapes in PowerPoint (2013). In PowerPoint, your inserted movie clip is always placed as in a traditional rectangular shape, which is exactly what most users expect since it does seem safe and conventional. However, PowerPoint 2011 allows you to crop your movie to various shapes such as a circle, an oval, a wave, a triangle, or any of PowerPoint's default shapes.

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How To Merge Shapes In Powerpoint 2011 For Mac Catalina

Author: Geetesh Bajaj

Product/Version: Microsoft PowerPoint 2011
OS: Mac OS X

Date Created: October 11th 2011
Last Updated: October 11th 2011

Excerpt/Capsule: Learn how to change shapes withina SmartArt graphic in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

Most of the time, SmartArt graphics work great with their defaultlooks -- and that's something to credit Microsoft with. In additionyou can changeone SmartArt graphics to another and you can also changecolors or applya new SmartArt Style to make your SmartArt appear distinct andunique. What many users don't realize though is that they can changethe individual shapes within a SmartArt graphic to another shape --for instance, you can change some circles in your SmartArt graphicto squares with a mere click or two! Follow these steps to explorehow you can change the individual shapes in SmartArt graphics:

1. Select your existing SmartArt graphic. Then select the particularshape which you want to change within your SmartArt graphic. In Figure1 you can see that among the three Rounded Rectangle shapes,the middle one has been selected.
   Figure 1: Continuous Block Process SmartArt graphicin PowerPoint
   

   Tip: Want to know how to add a SmartArt graphicon your slide in the first place? Go here to learn how youcan inserta SmartArt graphic within PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

   
   
2. Select the SmartArt tab of the Ribbon thatyou can see highlighted in red in Figure 2. Withinthis tab, locate the Edit SmartArt group and clickthe Shape button (highlighted in blue in Figure2).
   Figure 2: Shape button within Edit SmartArt groupof SmartArt tab
   
3. This opens the Shape drop-down gallery as shown in Figure3. From the different shape categories included in thisgallery, select any shape you like - for this tutorial an Oval hasbeen selected (refer to Figure 3 again).
   Figure 3: Oval shape selected within the Shape drop-downgallery
   
4. This will change the selected shape in the SmartArt to the newshape which you have just chosen from the Shape gallery. In Figure4 you can see that the Rounded Rectangle shapeselected earlier is now changed to an Oval. Notethat only the shape is changed, and all other attributes of the shapesuch as fill color, outline color, etc, are still the same (compare Figure1 and 4).
   Figure 4: Selected shape withina SmartArt graphic is changed from a rectangle to an oval
   
5. Save your presentation.
   

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See Also:

Change Shapes within a SmartArt Graphic in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
ChangeShapes within a SmartArt Graphic in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

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Office 2011 for Mac has all kinds of shapes, including text boxes, shapes, SmartArt shapes, and content placeholders in PowerPoint. But that’s just the beginning. In addition to using the Font tab offerings, you can apply an incredible amount of interesting text effects.

The moment you click on or into a shape, the Format tab appears to the right of the Home tab on the Ribbon. Click the Format tab to display the formatting options in this tab of the Ribbon.

Selecting shapes and text to format in Office 2011 for Mac

Knowing what’s currently selected is very important when formatting text that’s inside a shape of some sort. You can format the text inside a shape as well as format the shape containing the text independently.

When the shape itself is selected, the resize handles are shaded with color.

Text within shapes responds nicely to the Font section of the Ribbon, regardless of whether the shape or the text within the shape is selected. Because you can apply formatting options such as reflection and shadow to both the entire containing shape as well as text inside the shape, it’s important to pay attention to what you have selected, the shape or the text within a shape, before applying formatting.

Applying shape styles in Office 2011 for Mac

Like the Font group, when you use the Shape Styles tools in the Format tab of the Ribbon, the formatting changes are applied to the shape itself, as well as the text inside the shape. Many of the tools have an option that takes you to the Format Shape, Picture, or Text dialog. On the Ribbon’s Shape Styles group, you can find these interface options:

• Arrow buttons: Click the round arrow buttons at each end of the Shape Styles group to display more of the available styles.

• Submenu: Click at the bottom of the group near the middle to display all the styles on a submenu palette as a drop-down gallery.

• More Options: Click to display the Format Shape dialog.

• Fill format: Displays the color palette with a Fill Effects option. Choosing Fill Effects displays the Format Shape dialog.

• Line format: Formats the line that surrounds a shape.

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Clicking the Effects button produces a submenu divided into five categories, each of which has additional submenu palettes with a wide variety of formatting effects. A click on a palette is all it takes to apply an effect. The categories are:

• Shadow

• Reflection

• Glow

• Bevel

• 3-D Rotation

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Transparency is a measure of how much you can see through something when it is on top of another object or the background. Something that is adjusted to 100% transparent is invisible. When adjusted to 0% transparency, it is completely opaque. The fun comes in when you adjust transparency somewhere in between and pile objects on top of one another.