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You can create effective designs by duplicating a particular shape multiple times. Although it’s not hard to copy a shape (hold down Ctrl and drag the shape), it’s quite difficult to get the same distance between the duplicates. Happily, PowerPoint can do this for you. Click the shape and press Ctrl+D to create the first duplicate. Use your mouse to drag the dupli­cate to the correct position. This tells PowerPoint how far away you want each duplicate and in which direction. Press Ctrl+D again, and PowerPoint creates a third shape that uses the same spacing as the second. Keep pressing Ctrl+D to create more duplicates, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 After you establish the spacing between the first and second shapes, press Ctrl+D to create duplicates with the same spacing.

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