Add a shape in Excel, Outlook, Word, or PowerPoint On the Insert tab, click Shapes. Select the shape you want, click in the workspace and drag to draw the shape. To create a perfect square or circle (or …

You can change the look of a shape or text box by changing its fill or by adding effects to it, such as shadows, glows, reflections, soft edges, bevels, and three-dimensional (3-D) rotations. A fill is a …

Notes: You can change the look of your circle or curve by adding a shape fill or effect or changing the border. If you want to create a more advanced diagram like overlapping circles, an organizational …

Use the freeform and scribble tools to draw and edit shapes in your documents. Use edit points to customize the look of a standard shape.

Try it! Sometimes the best way to get your point across is to draw it. Select Insert > Shapes. Select the shape you want to add. Click and drag to draw it.

Your shape then becomes a master shape. Your Favorites stencil and custom stencils that you create are editable; the stencils provided with Visio templates are not. For more information about creating a …

Draw a custom shape Edit a shape Create a new master shape Draw a rectangle or circle On the Home tab, in the Tools group, click the arrow next to Rectangle , and then do one of the following: To draw …

To make changes to a shape, you typically need to select it first, and for some types of changes, you need to select multiple shapes simultaneously. This topic describes several methods of selecting …

A SHAPE field is the Drawing Canvas and is similar to a placeholder, which is automatically created for any drawn picture. Drawn pictures (also called vector drawings) are created from lines, curves, …

Select shapes Most often, you have to select shapes before you can do other things, such as move, rotate, or resize shapes, in drawings. In Visio, you can select shapes one at a time, by area, with the …

Ink to Shape can help users create diagrams, charts, graphs, or sketches more easily and accurately, and edit or resize them as needed. Ink to Math The Ink to Math feature in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, …