The slide that we see on this page contains a single rectangular box.
Let's explore some of the ways in which we can modify it.
We have to select the object and right click on it.
Once we've done that we can open the format shape menu.
There are a number of properties that can be adjusted for a given object.
We can modify its fill line color line style shadow and reflection details.
Each group on its own contains a number of options that are displayed once we selected.
For example when we click on fill we can modify the color of the objects fill the interior of the shape
that we have selected.
I can select no fill and the interior of the box will become transparent.
As you can see solid fill is the default option on PowerPoint we can select one of these colors and
the box will be filled with it.
Here it is in addition to that the transparency of the Applied colors can be adjusted by using the transparency
percentage scale
sometimes a gradient fill is used as well.
It is an advanced tool and represents a shape change that gradually changes from one color to another
across the surface of the shape.
The default number of gradient stops is for let's simply leave it as it is.
We can click on each of the stops and modify its color in the following way if necessary we can adjust
the position of each of the stops until we obtain the desired effect.
Let's select line color settings as a line is the intended external border of the selected shape.
In this section of the menu we can modify such external line and shape it according to our taste.
If we click on no line the line defining the borders of the object would disappear
by default.
We have a solid line.
We can easily modify its color by clicking on color and selecting a color of our choice
similarly to what we had for shapes.
We can also adjust the transparency of the line color
in line style.
We will find some additional line properties.
For example we can't adjust the width of the line from this scale.
I'll reduce these figures in order to obtain a thinner line.
Let's say that we want a width of zero point five inches.
Here it is a significantly thinner line.
We will go through the arrow settings in one of the later videos.
In this course next comes the shadow section of the format shape menu newly created objects in PowerPoint
do not have a shadow.
By default we can add a shadow effect from this menu.
Practitioners often do that as a shadow effect adds extra flair to PowerPoint slides.
Very often in this course we will add a shadow to newly created objects in the following way directly
clicking on transparency and adjusting it to 80 percent or 90 percent.
You can see that this triggered the modification of some of the other parameters once we have the shadow
which is transparent.
At 80 percent we will reduce the blur and distance to 3 and set an angle of 45 degrees.
This creates a pleasant shadow effect which sharpens the selected object and does not irritate the eye
reflection and glow effects can be created in a similar way depending on the output that we would like
to obtain.
I'd like to show you what these effects represent in practice.
First of all I will create a reflection which is transparent at 50 percent.
Here it is.
It is a bit too strong.
I'd recommend that you use a higher degree of transparency when you would like to use reflections in
your presentations in order to create a glow effect.
I'll select glow.
We have to pick a size and degree of transparency.
I'll add a size of 10.
Transparency of 60 percent and leave the default color as it is.
This is what a glow effect looks like.
The rest of the sections of the format shape menu will be covered in our next videos.
This will do for now.
Thanks for watching.