Gradients

=Powerpoint Gradients=

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 * Steven Bosoy

 PowerPoint 2007 has given us some awesome looking shapes complete with gorgeous fills and effects.

The built-in Quick Styles are beautiful, but sometimes I just need a simple gradient fill. PowerPoint 2007 gives us a good-looking default gradient, but it doesn't give us a good interface to easily modify or create gradients.

So, I figured a quick tutorial on creating gradients in PPT might be worthwhile. These tutorials were created using PowerPoint 2007's "Office" Theme colors. It's also helpful to know that closing and reopening PowerPoint resets the default gradient fill back to the 3-stop gradient based on Accent 1 of the Theme color set.  1. Insert | Shape, choose Rounded Rectangle, click and drag on the slide to make a big rectangle. 2. On the Drawing Tools Format ribbon in the Shape Styles group, click the Format Shape dialog launcher. (It's that tiny little square you see circled in the image below.) This opens the Format Shape dialog box. 3. Select the rectangle and, in the Format Shape dialog box, on the Fill tab, click the radio button next to Gradient fill. The rectangle will automatically fill with the default gradient, which is based on Accent 1 of your Theme color set.  **