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Setting up a quick access toolbar helps you find hidden commands and functions in PowerPoint. Watch the video and follow our tutorial to create your own custom toolbar step-by-step.
Benefits of Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)
Now that we have seen the uses of this tool, let’s go ahead and set it up…
Tutorial Video: How to set up the toolbar?
Step by Step Tutorial
See the step-by-step instructions below to create your custom access toolbar. To start with, in the main menu, go to File> Options
- Shape Combine
- Shape Intersect
- Shape Subtract
- Shape Union
Now that the necessary tools are readily available for access, you can go ahead and play with these features to create custom diagrams.
How do the Shape Merge functions work?
Here is a quick peek at what each function we have added to the toolbar does with an example. Let us take an example of a rectangle and an oval:
Selecting these 2 shapes, we ran each of the commands in turn. This is the result for each…
Shape Combine combines the 2 shapes less the intersecting area:
Shape Intersect gives the exact opposite result:
Shape Substract resulted in this:
Finally, Shape Union merged the 2 shapes like this:
What can you do with these functions?
Here are some examples of the PowerPoint Diagrams we have created with the Shape related functions.
Venn Diagram from PowerPoint Charts & Diagrams CEO Pack
PowerPoint 3D Arrows from 750+ Charts & Diargams CEO Pack
Gears from PowerPoint Charts & Diagrams CEO Pack
Related: Tutorial to create Branched PowerPoint Arrow