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Summary
The Paddle Ball (GUOS65118) is an item from the comeback era of the Gothic Universe of Shapes series. It was created on the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 20th May 2018 using Faber Castell Watercolour Pencils, Lead Pencils, and Felt Pens, an Artline 204 Faxblac 0.4 Black Pen, Microsoft Paint, Microsoft Excel 2010, Paint 3-D, and Paint.NET.

It was not created using auto-shapes, being drawn and edited outside Microsoft Excel, except for some shadow effects. The Paddle Ball is the third shape to be completed using Microsoft Excel 2010, instead of Microsoft Excel 2007, and the third shape to be drawn and edited outside Microsoft Excel, without using Adobe Photoshop CS4.

The Paddle Ball was also the third shape to use effects from Paint 3-D, although the effects were indistinguishable from if similar effects had been added using a different program. It was also the first shape to use effects from Paint.NET, although the effects were indistinguishable from if similar effects had been added using a different program.

Being completed in Microsoft Excel 2010 meant that I could use tools that were absent in Microsoft Excel 2007, such as changing the colour tone of the shape, and applying a glad wrap texture effect. This was the third time I used Microsoft Excel to apply a glad wrap texture effect, since I no longer had access to Adobe Photoshop CS4, and thus I couldn't use it to apply a glad wrap texture effect.