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Would you like to be able to change Microsoft's basic clipart images to something more interesting, like the lion shown here?
In PowerPoint, open a completely blank slide. Choose Insert, Picture, ClipArt and select any picture. Click the picture to select it and drag to make it the size you want. Next, go to your drawing toolbar choose Draw, Ungroup (say yes to PowerPoint's prompt asking if you want to reformat) and then, leaving all the picture elements selected, choose Draw, Group. Now right-click the picture and choose Format Object. Click the Colors And Lines tab when the Format Object dialog box opens. Under Fill, click the arrow at the right side of the Color list box and choose Fill Effects. In the Fill Effects dialog box, click the Gradient tab and then select the Two Colors radio button. Select two light colors for Color 1 and Color 2. I n this case, I used white and gray. I also selected the Line dropdown box and added a thin black line (you can try it without the line and see if you prefer that). This seems to work best with light colors, but feel free to experiment...and, most importantly.......HAVE FUN!!
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