Shading overlap area

[Guest]

I need to shade some parts of the overlapping drawing objects. Say I have 3
circles overlapping each other. I need to be able to shade with different
colors or different line pattern the 4 ovelapping area of the 3 circles
(imagine the color sheme cicles in any elementary school science book). I use
not onluy circles, sometimes it's a rectangle overlapping with another
rectangle and a square.

Is there any easy and automatic way of doing so?

Thanks in advanced.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Jo,

If you are using powerpoint 97/2000 then the only option available to you is something called "semi-transparent" on the
"fill color" menus. From memory, if you have more than 2 overlapping objects the effect is lost. As powerpoint 97/2000
cheats with the transparency effect (it uses a dot/dither pattern)

In powerpoint 2002/XP/2003, you can set a "true" transparent effect, that works with more than 2 objects.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[Ute Simon]

I need to shade some parts of the overlapping drawing objects. Say I have 3
circles overlapping each other. I need to be able to shade with different
colors or different line pattern the 4 ovelapping area of the 3 circles
(imagine the color sheme cicles in any elementary school science book). I
use
not onluy circles, sometimes it's a rectangle overlapping with another
rectangle and a square.

Jo,

I had the "three-circle-problem" some time ago, too. A colleague drew these
circles for me in Illustrator, there you can separate the intersection. I
stored it in WMF file format and now use it like a clipart.

If you only need two or three circles, you can download my files on Mary
Sauer's homepage: http://msauer.mvps.org/submitted_publisher_projects.htm

Kind regards,
Ute