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: Using Artistic Effects on Shapes in PowerPoint When arranging elements on my PowerPoint slides, I have one slide where I would like to use the pencil grayscale effect found under artistic effects.

@Tiffany317

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When arranging elements on my PowerPoint slides, I have one slide where I would like to use the pencil grayscale effect found under artistic effects. While I can use this for pictures, I cannot use it for shapes that I created in PowerPoint. Is there any way to replicate artistic effects on shapes without exporting the shapes as images from other programs, then adding them back in?

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@Sherry646

Is there any way to replicate artistic effects on shapes without exporting the shapes as images from other programs, then adding them back in?



Copy the shape.
Press CTRL+ALT+V, and the Paste Special dialog appears.
Pick Picture (PNG) and press OK.
Apply Format ➔ Artistic Tools ➔ Pencil Grayscale to the pasted picture.

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@Chiappetta793

I'm fairly certain that Powerpoint Artistic Effects are designed for bitmap images only, whereas shapes will be a vector based format.

Other than saving out the shapes as bitmaps and re-importing them like you suggested, I don't think this will be achievable.

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