Learning everything there is to know about working with shapes in PowerPoint is vitally important to Relational Presentation techniques. Shapes form the basis of many navigation styles. They can be used to add decorative effects, structure, or framing to slides. You might include them to provide visual clues about where to find certain kinds of links. They even can be entirely invisible, enabling all kinds of creative design and delivery possibilities.

This tutorial is approximately one hour long and covers everything you need to know about PowerPoint shapes, in preparation for starting other Aspire tutorials. In fact, we recommend completing this tutorial first, especially before working through the navigation tutorials. The skills mastered here are foundational and will help you learn those topics faster.