Special Edition Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2000

Design Corner

Let's face it. When you were a kid, you liked to color outside the lines. Now that you're grown up and have PowerPoint to play with, you still like to do things a bit differently than PowerPoint wants you to.

Not only that, you also like to work fast and smart. Let's try something that lets you be creative and also efficient.

Suppose you frequently use a specially modified Autoshape in your slide presentations. Instead of having to re-create the shape each time you use it, you can record a macro to create the shape, and then create a custom toolbar icon to play the macro.

Before

Begin by creating the macro (see Chapter 19, "Working with PowerPoint Macros," for details on recording macros.) For our example, we created a macro named ...