Powerpoint; several slides w/ colored circles.How do I color inte.

[Guest]

I have a presentation with several slides that have colored circles
representing different ideals. Several slides show the circles intersecting.
How do I color the intersected section, rather than have it appear as though
one circle is merely overlapping the other?

 

[Echo S]

I have a presentation with several slides that have colored circles
representing different ideals. Several slides show the circles intersecting.
How do I color the intersected section, rather than have it appear as though
one circle is merely overlapping the other?

What you have is called a Venn diagram. You will need to do your coloring in
a photo editor such as PhotoShop or PaintShopPro (or use a drawing program
such as Illustrator or Corel Draw).

Or you can draw your own autoshape in PPT and give it a fill color.

PPT 2002/2003 have better transparency, so the Venn diagrams look better
than they do in previous versions. However, you still cannot specify the
central color where the circles intersect.

 

[Ute Simon]

I had a similar Problem some time ago. I had a colleague draw the circles in
Illustrator for me and pasted them into PowerPoint. There you can recolor
the sections separately, because it's vector graphics. And if you have PPT
2002 or 2003 you can save it as a ClipArt to re-use it.

If you only need 2 or 3 circles, visit Mary Sauer's site:
http://msauer.mvps.org/submitted_publisher_projects.htm. She uploaded the
Clipart I which I made. Feel free to use it, if it helps to solve your
problem.

Kind regards,
Ute