A Quick Tutorial by Shellie Haack

Creating a Custom Texture in PowerPoint™

Click Insert, Shape Oval

STEP 1

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Draw small circle (hold Shift to constrain proportions)

STEP 2

Remove outline color

STEP 3

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Fill circle with color of choice (just above line color; I went with a very subtle

gray) and right click on circle to save as picture

STEP 4

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Save .jpg where you can easily retrieve it

STEP 5

Use topmost slide master if you’d like pattern on all slides

STEP 7

STEP 6 Click View, Slide Master

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Draw a rectangle that fills the entire slide

STEP 8

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Remove the outline

STEP 9

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Select, then fill rectangle with texture(more on next slide)

STEP 10

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Click Picture or texture fill Click Tile picture as texture Click File… to navigate to

circle .jpg

STEP 11

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Double-click on file to choose file

STEP 12

From this screen, you can tweak the scale and transparency to get your texture

looking the way you wantSTEP 14

VOILÀ!