Publisher 2003 - fill an oval with 2 sold colors

[Steven]

I want to know how to fill an oval with 1 half being red and one half being
blue

 

[Mary Sauer]

Autoshapes, more Autoshapes, scroll down to the pie slice, adjust it for one
half, resize it oval, fill with red, copy, rotate 90 degrees, fill with blue.

 

[Ed Bennett]

I want to know how to fill an oval with 1 half being red and one half being
blue

Trickier than it should be...

Create your ellipse.

Copy it to the Clipboard, then Edit > Paste Special as an Enhanced Metafile.

Go to Arrange > Ungroup, and hit Yes when asked to convert to an Office
drawing. Then right-click > Ungroup to separate the invisible rectangle
from the ellipse. Select the invisible rectangle and delete it.

Copy the pasted shape to the Clipboard, and paste it again.

Align all three ellipses on top of each other (use Arrange > Snap > To
Objects, or Arrange > Align or Distribute commands to achieve this)

Right-click on the visible ellipse (this will select the top-most one),
and click Edit Points. Right-click on the line again, and hit Close
Path. Then right-click on the bottom-most rectangle, and hit Delete
Point. Set the fill to red.

Now right-click on the bottom half of the ellipse (this will select the
middle ellipse, as you have removed this part of the topmost one), and
hit Edit Points again. Right-click on the line again, and hit Close
Path. Then right-click on the top-most rectangle, and hit Delete Point.
Repeat if necessary until the top-most rectangle no longer appears. Set
the fill to blue.

Hold shift and click the red area. Right-click > Order > Send to back.
Set the lines to No Line. This leaves the original rearmost ellipse as
the only remaining outline, on top of the other two ellipses (if you
haven't already done so, set its fill to No Fill, so the colouring of
the two semi-ellipses shows through.

Select all three shapes and group them so you can move them around as a
single unit.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Autoshapes, more Autoshapes, scroll down to the pie slice, adjust it for one
half, resize it oval, fill with red, copy, rotate 90 degrees, fill with blue.

I thought there was a pie slice somewhere, but couldn't for the life of
me remember where it would be! Using this method to create semicircles
rather than going through point editing is recommended, Steven

 

[Steven]

I thought there was a pie slice somewhere, but couldn't for the life of
me remember where it would be! Using this method to create semicircles
rather than going through point editing is recommended, Steven

Thanks to both of you. It worked very nicely. Too bad the application
doesn't have this as an option.