Give your PowerPoint Shapes a more professional look

Note: If you're using PowerPoint 2007, don't bother reading this, because PowerPoint 2007 already has the following effects in the gallery and thus can be achieved with one click!

Shapes in PowerPoint always look flat like this:


Now what about this?


Here's how to do it:

1. Remove outlines


2. Add shadows


3. Change background colour to gradient


4. Change text font/colour/size

Yes it's that simple... here's a sample PowerPoint presentation that illustrates the above steps.

Anyway the above tips are also applicable to Word as well, in case you want to make the shapes in Word look nicer.