Adding a Quick Style to a Shape

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Instead of changing individual attributes of a shapesuch as shape fill, shape outline, and shape effectsyou can quickly add them all at once with the Shape Quick Style gallery. The Shape Quick Style gallery (New!) provides a variety of different formatting combinations. To quickly see if you like a Shape Quick Style, point to a thumbnail in the gallery to display a live preview (New!) of it in the selected shape. If you like it, you can apply it.

Add a Quick Style to a Shape

Click the shape you want to apply a new or different Quick Style.

Click the Format tab under Drawing Tools.

Click the scroll up or down arrow, or click the More list arrow in the Shapes Styles group to see additional styles.

The current style appears highlighted in the gallery.

Point to a style.

A live preview (New!) of the style appears in the current shape.

Click the style you want from the gallery to apply it to the selected shape.