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Using SmartArt to create diagrams

Using SmartArt to create diagrams

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Using SmartArt to create diagrams

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- PowerPoint can help you create all sorts of neat ways to show diagrams, flow charts, and can even let you add a picture to a diagram. It's called SmartArt, and all the functionality you need, is built right into PowerPoint. Here's my Executive Team slide. This is the perfect slide to convert into SmartArt. I'll click and drag to select all the text. On the Home Ribbon tab, I'll click Convert to SmartArt. From here, I can choose a graphic that suits my need. If I hold my mouse over each one, I can see what it's going to look like on the slide. I'll start off by choosing one. I get two new tabs. The SmartArt Design tab, and the SmartArt Format tab. The first thing I want to do is choose a SmartArt style. I can click the down arrow. I'll choose this nice 3D one to go along with the look and feel of everything else on my slides. I can also change the colors of it. I'll give them all different colors to make them more interesting to look at. Because this is a picture one, I can click on…

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