Advanced Microsoft® Office Documents 2007 Edition Inside Out

Making Smart Choices with SmartArt

SmartArt is nothing more than a tool for creating business diagrams. It just happens to create really beautiful diagrams, with extremely professional formatting effects, in almost no time—so it’s probably worth a look.

In this section, we’ll walk through creating, editing, and customizing SmartArt diagrams, and address common troubleshooting issues encountered when working with this new tool.

Creating a SmartArt Diagram

You have a few choices concerning where to start when using SmartArt diagrams.

• If you’re creating a slide presentation, just click the SmartArt icon on any content layout (as you see in the following image) to add a diagram at the appropriate size. (See Chapter 19, to learn about what’s new when working ...