If I understand your question, and I think I do, you'll want to familiarize
yourself with the 'new' Ribbon. Once the shape you've created is selected,
you should see a tab for "Format" in the Ribbon; which you can then change
fill color, outline color, effects, etc. You can also right click the
selected shape and scroll down to "Format shape". There's also a third way,
which is more global then the selective methods I suggested above, which is
to change the "Theme color" from the Design tab. Hope these suggestions help.

There's no easy way to do what you want. You can't fill areas like you can in
a paint program. How complex is the aotoshape?

If John's suggestions don't work out (and I'd try it his way first), here's
another option:

Select the graphic, group it, make it fairly large then choose Edit, Copy.

Then switch to a paint program and paste in the graphic.  You should now be able
to flood fill (ie, paint bucket or similar tool) as usual.  Save it as a PNG
then use Insert, Picture, From File to bring it back into PPT.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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