SmartArt
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Last Updated: June 9th 2009
10/01/2009 01:36 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Adding New Shapes to Existing SmartArt Graphics
As you work with SmartArt within PowerPoint, you'll find that you need to add some more components to your SmartArt graphics -- maybe there's a change required in an organization chart, or you need to add a new shape within your diagram to reflect some other change. Fortunately, SmartArt lets you maintain the changes happening in the world around with just a click or two! This is normally achieved by adding extra shapes to your existing SmartArt graphics.
09/26/2009 02:52 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Text Pane For SmartArt Graphics
Although SmartArt contains text, it is not too easy to edit, add, or delete text contained within a shape inside a SmartArt graphic. Thankfully, the Text Pane available to edit text in a SmartArt graphic makes it a whole lot more intuitive! This page explores options for working with the Text Pane for SmartArt graphics in PowerPoint 2007.
09/25/2009 11:04 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Convert Bulleted Text to SmartArt
In a previous tutorial, I showed you how you can insert SmartArt in PowerPoint 2007. However that works only when you are creating a new slides. Many times you may alraedy have your slides that contain bulleted text. This tutorial shows how you can convert such bulleted text to a SmartArt graphic in a jiffy within PowerPoint 2007. Follow these steps to convert existing bulleted text on a slide to a SmartArt graphic in PowerPoint 2007.
09/24/2009 03:19 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Inserting SmartArt
SmartArt is the name of the new diagram component within PowerPoint 2007. This tutorial shows you how you can insert SmartArt graphics within PowerPoint 2007. If you are new to this, do take a look at the What is SmartArt? and SmartArt Samples pages.
09/24/2009 12:19 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Some SmartArt Samples
On this page you can see some samples of SmartArt created within PowerPoint 2007. Each sample has a caption that tells you the name of that particular SmartArt graphic variant.
09/24/2009 10:57 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: What is SmartArt?
SmartArt is a new component within PowerPoint 2007, and replaces the diagram options in previous versions of PowerPoint. Other than that, SmartArt also allows you to replace boring bullet points with info-graphic content using text-within-shapes that's more logical to view and present.
06/09/2009 10:39 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: SmartArt Graphics
SmartArt graphics are a new feature in PowerPoint 2007 (and Office 2007). Like charts, these are info-graphics but the similarities end there. Whereas charts are based on figures, the foundations of SmartArt graphics are based on logic, which helps convey relationships, hierarchies, and flows through a combination of simple shapes and text. Organization charts and cycle relationship drawings are all common examples of SmartArt graphics.
