Add a Shape Callout

Quick reference

• 00:03 I want to show you something called a callout that we can add to a shape.
• 00:08 Now notice how in a previous lesson, we added the text box keyboard,
• 00:13 and then we add the picture keyboard right there.
• 00:16 Well, I really want to make sure that people know that that's associated
• 00:20 with the keyboard import shape.
• 00:22 So I'm going to go ahead and click on that word keyboard there.
• 00:25 Actually it's the text box that goes along with the actual keyboard.
• 00:29 I'm just going to move that up for a second.
• 00:31 And if I want to edit that text, then I'm just going to click on the text tool.
• 00:37 And then maybe hit my Delete key to get rid of that text.
• 00:41 And we'll do it in a different way.
• 00:43 And then I'm just going to to pick on the pointer tool, and
• 00:45 now that shape doesn't have a text.
• 00:47 But I want to make sure that people know that the keyboard
• 00:50 is actually related to that shape.
• 00:52 So what we're going to do is we're going to add a callout.
• 00:55 I'm going to go ahead and click on that shape,
• 00:58 and then I'll pick on the Insert menu, we see Insert.
• 01:02 And then notice how there's one that's called a callout.
• 01:05 And then if you move your mouse around these, the preview mode will kick in,
• 01:10 as you can see.
• 01:11 All right, so that one's not bad.
• 01:14 Then you can see how it would even be different shapes that we can assign to
• 01:18 the text here.
• 01:19 That one doesn't really fit this particular model,
• 01:22 but I can see it's just for that one.
• 01:23 The one that I kind of like is this one.
• 01:26 So I'm going to go ahead and click on that.
• 01:29 And then I'm going to type into the actual text there, I type in the word keyboard.
• 01:38 And then I'm just going to click away from that, okay, good.
• 01:43 So now I'll move the actual keyboard shape near that callout.
• 01:48 And then you can see it looks like it's more associated with that
• 01:51 shape, all right?
• 01:53 So I can click on any shape, then I pick on the Insert menu, and
• 01:57 we pick in the word Callout.
• 01:59 And then you can just move your mouse around those and
• 02:02 see what they're going to do.
• 02:03 See what they really look like before you choose one.
• 02:06 Now even when I click on that, pick on one of those.
• 02:09 If I click on that callout itself,
• 02:12 then of course it's like any other shape at that point.
• 02:16 I can format it with the fill or with the line or with the effects or
• 02:20 with the quick styles.
• 02:22 And now we can see, how we do a callout and
• 02:25 what nice effect that has on your presentation.

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