Add a fill or effect to a shape or text box - Microsoft Support
You can change the look of a shape or text box by changing its fill or by adding effects to it, such as shadows, glows, reflections, soft edges, bevels, and three-dimensional (3-D) rotations. A fill is a color, pattern, texture, picture, or gradient applied to the interior of a shape.
Curve text around a circle or other shape - Microsoft Support
You can use WordArt with a Transform text effect to curve or bend text around a shape. If you want the text to circle the shape, you can also do this, but it’s a little bit more work. You can also insert WordArt multiple times to wrap text around shapes with straight edges. Go to Insert > WordArt, and pick the WordArt style you want.
Change a shape into another shape - Microsoft Support
Go to Shape Format and near the left end, select Edit Shape. Select Change Shape, then choose another shape from the gallery. Change one or more shapes that are already in a document.
Video: Format shapes - Microsoft Support
To begin, select the shapes you want to format. To select more than one, press and hold the Shift key. When you select one or more shapes, a new Drawing Tools tab appears. Here, you can select Shape Fill to fill the selected shapes with a solid color, gradient, texture, or picture.
Add or remove a border on a text box, shape, or SmartArt graphic
Shape Outline lets you choose the color, thickness, or style of the outside border of a text box, shape, or SmartArt graphic. By setting the border to No Outline, you remove the border altogether.
Format AutoShape - Microsoft Support
In the Format AutoShape dialog box, you can change the color, pattern, outline, size, and other options. What do you want to do? To fill your shape with a solid color, click the color that you want. To add a multiple-colored background, click Fill Effects.
Draw or edit a freeform shape - Microsoft Support
You can draw shapes in Office by using the freeform Shape and Scribble tools. You can customize the look of a standard shape by using edit points. Note: For information about …
Add shapes - Microsoft Support
You can add shapes, such as boxes, circles, and arrows, to your documents, email messages, slide shows, and spreadsheets. On the Insert tab, select Shapes. Select a shape from the gallery, and then click and drag to draw the shape.
Crop a picture to fit in a shape - Microsoft Support
With Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, or Excel, you can easily change the outline of a photo by turning it into a shape like a circle or a rounded rectangle. The Crop to Shape feature provides options for cropping an image to a specific shape or starting with …
Change the size of a picture, shape, text box, or WordArt in Word
You can easily resize pictures, text boxes, shapes, and WordArt in your Office file. You can also remove unwanted portions of a picture by cropping it. Select the picture, shape, WordArt, or other object to resize. To keep the center in the same place, press and …
Set text direction and position in a shape or text box in Word ...
In a shape or text box, you can change the direction in which text is read. That is, you can pivot text 90 or 270 degrees so that it appears sideways. Right-click the edge of the shape or text box. On the shortcut menu, select Format Shape. In the …