How to resize Auto Shapes Menu in PowerPoint

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Found Your Auto Shapes Menu blocking your slide content? Here is how to resize the menu box and solve this problem.

Blocked View of The Slide Area

Sometimes when you click on the drop down menu of auto shapes, you will find that the length of the menu box blocks the view of slide area. Take a look at the following scenario:

This blocked view makes it difficult to create new diagrams easily. What if you could resize the dimensions of Auto shapes menu box, so that you can pick the tools with ease, while maintaining a clear view of slide area? In this article, we will show you how to do it easily.

Drag the corner handle to resize the menu box:

When you move your cursor to the bottom right corner of menu box, you will find the cursor turning into a double headed arrow as shown below: 

You can hold the handle to resize the dimensions of menu box to your liking as shown below:

You can browse through the shapes using vertical scroll bar. This is a much better way to work with the auto shapes menu.

I hope you found this tutorial useful. You can find many more such PowerPoint tricks in our tutorials section.

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