Also, if you apply this option to a dashed line, it influences all individual dashes within the line.

Now we take you further ahead to explore how you can change line weight to make the outlines thinner and thicker.

So why would you want to alter the weight of an outline There are many reasons.

More often than not, you may want a line thats almost invisible or very thin.

At other times when you want the attention of your audience to focus on a particular line, then you can do so by increasing its weight.

In this tutorial, we will also cover compound lines such as those that encompass double or triple lines.

You can change the weight all the way from a hairline thin line to a chunky thick line.

Formatting Windows Powerpoint Movie Using The

You can also add a shape outline to an inserted movie using the same options.

Here, select the Blank Presentation to open a blank presentation with a new slide.

You can change the Slide Layout to Blank by selecting the Home tab Layout Blank option.

Contextual tabs are special tabs in the Ribbon that are not visible all the time.

They only make an appearance when you are working with a particular slide object which can be edited using special options.

This brings up the Shape Outline drop-down gallery, as shown in Figure 3.

From the Shape Outline drop-down gallery, choose Weight to bring up the Weight sub-gallery, as shown in Figure 3.

Or choose the More Lines as shown highlighted in blue within Figure 3, above.

Make sure that the Fill tab is selected (highlighted in red within Figure 4 ), then select the Line options.

Within this section, select the Solid line radio button (highlighted in blue within Figure 4 ).

You can opt to create a really thick line, even 100 pt or more However, choose something that works best for you.

You can either type in the outline width in the box, or use the up and down arrow buttons in the control to adjust the outline width.

You will see an immediate preview within your selected shape on the slide.

Note that compound lines in PowerPoint are limited to two or three lines compounded to each other.

You need to choose the compound line options that PowerPoint provides and cannot create your own custom compound line.

Learn more about Formatting Outlines for Shapes (Dashes) in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac tutorial.

Formatting Windows Powerpoint For Mac