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dsigner

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Posted - 18/06/2008 :  10:36:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I am hoping to use Powerpoint 2003 in the way that I would use Visio. The drawing facilities and shape libraries are there but I can't seem to find any information on how to build by own shape library. It is very simple minded stuff that I am looking for. e.g. a rectangle with a diagonal line top right and an identification number in the triangle and the name text in the main body. I can't find any instructions relating to this bit of Powerpoint in help or online or in intro books from the library. Can anyone help please

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Posted - 07/07/2008 :  20:20:08  Show Profile  Visit administrator's Homepage  Send administrator an AOL message  Send administrator an ICQ Message  Send administrator a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Hi Roger,

seems this was one that got away!

Ultimately you need to combine the existing shapes in PowerPoint 2003 in order to create your own new shapes but if i remember correctly Roger it wasn't until PowerPoint 2007 that you could drag for example Visio stencils into PowerPoint and customize them etc.

By creating your custom shape in PowerPoint 2003 you can of course export it as a vecotr based shape which will allow you to later reimport it for any presentation...but as for creating a shapes library Roger, quite simply you should create a folder on your harddisk and save your PowerPoint shapes to it. Whilst in effect this is the same as creating a clipart or image bank of shapes that you can then use by importing into all your future PowerPoint presentations.



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