

To get the Group button back, move the shape, picture, or object to another location on your slide outside of the placeholder text, or remove the placeholder from the things you want to group. But the shapes cannot be grouped with the placeholder text. In the above example, the blue square and the green circle can be grouped together. If you are using PowerPoint, you might have tried to group something with the title placeholder text (“Click to add title”) or with the content placeholder (“Click to add text”). The Group button will not be available if any of these objects is selected.

Your selection includes a table, worksheet, or GIF image.

To increase the glow, click Text Effects. Click Text Effects > Glow, and choose a Glow Variation. Under DRAWING TOOLS, click the FORMAT tab. However, there is another great way to accomplish this using the Glow text effect. For more information on converting them to shapes, see: Convert an SVG image to an Office shape. The typical method for highlighting text with color is not available in PowerPoint 2013. Choose Crop to Shape from this menu, and select whichever shape you require. In the Picture Format tab, click on the small arrow underneath the Crop button to display more options. To group SVG icons together you have to convert them to shapes first. How to crop an image in PowerPoint 2010 or earlier: Simple shapes (circle, triangle, arrow) 1. You can't use the Group tool with SVG icons, so those don't count. Make sure you have multiple shapes or pictures selected. Presentation Design Mastery - PowerPoint Skills 1.12K subscribers Subscribe 142 Share 6.5K views 1 year. Here are some reasons why the Group button is grayed out and the things you can do to get it back. How to highlight areas of an image, directly in PowerPoint.
