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So let's look at how to make changes
to a design ideas slide in PowerPoint.
I'll show you how to change the format
of the slide and then I'll show you a work around
for moving and resizing parts of the design slide.
Right, if you're like me, you probably love, love, love
these Design Ideas.
So I'm in PowerPoint.
This is the PowerPoint desktop version of Office 365
and if I just come over to Design Ideas over here.
Of course, I just use this all the time.
I do not mind telling you that I'm not creative.
I know what I like when I look at it and see it
so I skim through these all the time,
kind of like looking for slides
that are going to make my PowerPoint presentation
have a little bit more pizazz.
So you can see this is one of the design ideas here.
But what I found when I started
to use these and this is obviously the same as you
because you wouldn't be watching this video otherwise,
is that I wanted to make changes
to the elements that were on the screen
but I couldn't select them,
so I kinda started thinking about it
and I thought hang on a minute,
maybe if I go up and use my Selection Pane.
So I'm on the Home tab
and if you just go up to the Editing area over here,
go to Select and go to Selection Pane and turn it on.
I thought maybe that might be helpful
and it was perfect.
So I'll just explain what this does.
It allows you to select the objects on screen.
What you can do is you can click onto each one of these
and you'll see as I'm doing that,
can you see that it's actually selecting the element
that's inside of the Design Ideas slide?
So if I wanted to say, for example,
change that over there,
the color of it, it's pretty simply, all I need to do
is just go and obviously grab a different color for it.
We'll just go for orange.
And look, it allows us me to do it.
So that's really simple.
All you need to do is just make your way through
and find the bits that you're actually wanting
to change and then just change them.
Now you will notice though
that you can't actually move them
or resize them and that can be a bit of a pain.
So you can be creative.
Say you didn't want that dot there.
And you're trying to actually get rid of it.
So if I go over here and click on it,
press my Delete key, there we go, you can get rid of it.
But if I want to resize it,
it's a little bit different.
So if I go over here,
and try and resize
and even if I, oops, I'll come over
and click on it again,
even if I go to the Shape Format,
you'll see that the size and the width unfortunately,
they're not available.
And this isn't too bad for this slide
but when I come to this slide,
of course, you can see that this bit down here
is kind of over my name
which isn't useful.
So what I can do is I can just make my way through looking
for that piece, that's that one there
and this is what I've been doing.
And if anybody knows a better workaround,
please put it in the comments.
But if you press your Delete key
and get rid of it,
and then what I've been doing
is I've just been making my way through
and obviously going and grabbing another shape
and popping it one there
and making sure that it just sits where I want it to be.
So it's above that information
and then just making it the color
that I wanted it to be
as close as I possible could.
You could use the color picker, of course,
if you needed to.
Down here, the eyedropper,
just go and grab the color that you want.
So if I go and grab that,
and you can see now it's actually the right color
with a border around it.
Of course, you can actually go then and just No Outline.
And I'm kind of now, I've fixed it
because that's okay for this slide.
Unfortunately it's not going to change every slide.
You'll have to go and do that manually.
But hey, it's a workaround and it'll work.
So again, just going over that.
Just remember, all you need to do
is make sure that you have your Selection Pane on.
Select what you need, just click onto what you need,
change it to whatever you want it to be
and you're good as gold.
So I really hope this instruction has been helpful
and you are now able to make the changes you need.
Just remember to use the Selection Pane
for quick formatting changes
and maybe replace parts that aren't useful
with your own elements.
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