How to Add a Shape in PowerPoint
Whether you want to create a custom flowchart or simply add a shape for design purposes, Microsoft PowerPoint has many shapes that you can choose to insert into your PowerPoint presentation. Follow the directions below to begin quickly and easily adding shapes to your PowerPoint presentation today.
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Instructions
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Start Microsoft PowerPoint. Open an existing presentation that contains a slide that you would like to add a shape to or start a new presentation where you can insert a shape.
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Open the drawing toolbar by choosing the "View" menu, pointing to "Toolbars" and clicking on "Drawing" if there is not a checkmark in front of it. Your drawing toolbar should now open somewhere on your PowerPoint screen. If there is already a checkmark in front of "Drawing," your drawing toolbar is already open.
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Click on the word "AutoShapes" on the drawing toolbar and point to a category from which you want to add a shape from.
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Select the shape that you want to add to PowerPoint by clicking on the shape.
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Use your mouse to click onto the slide where you would like your shape to appear. The shape will be added to your PowerPoint slide.
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Tips & Warnings
If you don't see a shape that you like, click on "AutoShapes" in the drawing toolbar and click on "More AutoShapes" to open the clip art task pane and browse the AutoShape collections.
Add multiple shapes to your PowerPoint slides by double-clicking the AutoShape you want to add and then clicking on your slides, wherever you wish to add that shape.
