[dba-Tech] PowerPoint freeform question

Susan Harkins ssharkins at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 13:12:49 CDT 2010


I couldn't figure out a way either and it doesn't discuss it in Help --  
least not with any of the topics I looked at.

Susan H.


> Just checked with my PP2003 and didn't see any way to do that.
>
>> In PowerPoint 2007, you can apply Freeform to an AutoShape object to 
>> create
> a custom shape. I don't believe you can do this in 2003 -- does anyone 
> know
> if you can? If you can, I haven't been able to figure out how.
>
> In 2007, you select the AutoShape, and then choose Freeform from the Edit
> Shapes option in the Insert Shapes group on the Format tab. After enabling
> Freeform, you right-click the object and choose Edit Points. Then, you 
> just
> start moving points around. It's kind of cool, but I don't recall anything
> like this is 2003 and I haven't been able to find it either -- but just
> because I can't figure it out doesn't mean you can't do it.




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