Morphing with non identical shapes in PPT 2019

As I indicated in a previous post, it is not possible to morph different shapes with each other by default. Suppose you have placed a square and a circle on one slide and you want to morph it on a second slide to a parallelogram and a hexagon.

If you try this in the usual way there is no morphing effect.
As you can see in the following video the two shapes do not really merge into one another.

Fortunately there is a way to accomplish this.

Rename the objects

First activate the Selection pane by pressing the keyboard combination Alt+F10. (for alternative possibilities see my previous article Two ways to quickly activate the selection pane).

Every object on the first and second slide must have the same name. The name should begin with double exclamation marks !!

In the Selection pane double click on the current name of the object till your cursor is in the field.
Type the two exclamation marks followed by the new name and press enter.
Repeat this for the second slide, see the example below:

Now select slide two and apply the Morph transition from the Transition tab.

Here's the result in a video:

Using this method you can also Morph two different pictures.

Just as with shapes rename the pictures in the selection pane. On the slide give the picture a different shape by going to Picture Tools, Format tab, Picture styles group, select the appropriate style.
Do not forget the two exclamation marks.
In the example below the first two slides have no renamed pictures in the following two they do.

Below is a video with the presentation from a previous blog article. I have used different arrows and applied the renaming technique to both the pictures and arrows.