PowerPoint Merge Shapes – Deep Dive

Merge Shapes is the most powerful yet lesser known feature of PowerPoint. It has been there sincel 2010. It allows you to combine shapes, text, pictures and videos in five different ways. Unbelievable objects can be created once you understand the fundamental principles of merging shapes. Learn it now.

Watch Merge Shapes video

Sample file

Download the file and follow along. Practice with the given shapes and use your own objects as well.

Contents – jump to specific topic in video

1. Amazing graphics demo – 00:00
2. Create custom toolbar – 00:15
3. Five ways to merge shapes – 00:49
4. Merge comparison – 01:06
5. Union – 01:16
6. Combine – 01:23
7. Fragment – 01:36
8. Intersect – 02:12
9. Subtract – 02:20
10. Merge without overlapping shapes – 02:27
11. Warning: No placeholders – 03:08
12. Type of objects – 03:41
13. Convert Text to Shape – 04:49
14. Text and Shape Merge – 05:58
15. Merge Text with Picture – 06:36
16. Merge Text and Video – 08:18
17. Converting SVG to Shapes – 10:41

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