Tips to Make Your PowerPoint Presentation Great

(Marilyn Snyder) Want to make your graphic objects look more sophisticated? Try putting a shadow underneath them. Let’s say you create an AutoShape circle and want to have a shadow underneath it. To create a neat circular shadow, for example, follow these steps: Create an AutoShape circle and, using the Fill Color, Fill Effects feature, fill it with two colors, making both colors the same (try a gray color). Change the transparency level on the second color to 100% transparent so that it fades out to nothing. Then change the Shading Style to From Center, and change the Variant so the outside color is the second (transparent) color. The result is that the circle seems to fade away into nothing on the outside edges. Change the line color to No Line. Then compress the shadow circle to make it egg-shaped and place it below and behind the first circle, making it appear to have a shadow.