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PowerPoint automatically creates plenty of shapes, but a spiral isn't one of them. However, there are several ways you can use the software to create a spiral effect. The simplest spiral, a line, can ...

Starting your figure drawing with basic shapes makes it easier to draw more sophisticated lines on top. Here, I've drawn the face using small shapes inside a big shape. This is two of my disciplines ...

Microsoft Word is jam-packed with features and formatting options. It also has numerous ways for users to add shapes, diagrams, and other visual elements to regular word processing templates. But even ...

Last year, OneNote received a neat feature (it later came to Word) that allowed PC users with touch-enabled computers that support styluses to draw perfect lines and shapes with the Draw and Hold ...

The Draw tab in Office allows users to make drawings in documents or slides. The Draw tab in PowerPoint allows you to make sketches with pen, pencil, and highlighters; it also has features to convert ...

If you insert a shape in PowerPoint and you want to change it into another different shape without having to delete it or insert another shape into the slide, you can use the Change Shape feature that ...

Adobe has ramped up its mobile efforts in a big way today at its annual Adobe Max conference, with seven new mobile apps unveiled (though two are repurposed versions of older software). The new ...