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Hello William,
PowerPoint does not have the capability of either creating new autoshapes
or modifying the existing palettes of shapes that are included with Office.
You can drag and drop a group of shapes to the Clip Organizer so that they
can be reused easily (and retain their existing Autoshape adjustment
behaviors) but there is no editor available that will allow you to actually
change the behaviors of existing shapes or to create other shapes and add
your own adjustment behaviors to them.
Of course, if you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that
PowerPoint/Office should include some kind feature for creating and/or
editing autoshapes in Office (or have specific recommendations for
additional autoshapes which should be included with Office), don't forget
to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.
IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).
John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows
For FAQ's, highlights and top issues, visit the Microsoft PowerPoint
support center at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=ppt
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbhowto
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