This brings up the Soft Edges sub-gallery (refer to Figure 3 again). From this gallery, choose the Soft Edges option. This brings up the Shape Effects drop-down gallery, as shown in Figure 3.They only make an appearance when you are working with a particular slide object which can be edited using special options. These tabs are special tabs in the Ribbon that are not visible all the time. Note: The Drawing Tools Format tab is a contextual tab.

Within the Drawing Tools Format tab click the Shape Effects button (highlighted in red within Figure 2). Activate this Ribbon tab by clicking on it. Select the shape so that the Ribbon shows the Drawing Tools Format tab, as shown highlighted in blue within Figure 2.To see a sample presentation containing shapes with Soft Edges applied in PowerPoint, scroll down to the bottom of this page.įollow these steps to apply Soft Edges to a shape in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows: In this tutorial, we'll show you how to apply the default soft edge effects to a shape. PowerPoint provides some ready-to-use Soft Edges as shown in Figure 1, below.Īdditionally, there is an option to format these ready made offerings. Soft Edges work best with larger shapes, especially if you use some of the larger Soft Edge variations available. This effect adds an eaten-up, feathered edge to a selected shape. Among the various Shape Effects available in PowerPoint, probably the most subtle one is the Soft Edges effect.

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