Chapter 2: Making a SmartArt Diagram

In This Chapter

arrow.png Creating a diagram

arrow.png Repositioning and resizing diagrams

arrow.png Laying out and changing the look of diagram shapes

arrow.png Entering text on a diagram shape

arrow.png Changing the appearance of a diagram

arrow.png Creating a diagram from shapes

Along with charts and tables, diagrams are the best way to present your ideas. Diagrams clearly show, for example, employees’ relationships with one another, product cycles, workflow processes, and spheres of influence. A diagram is an excellent marriage of images and words. Diagrams allow an audience to literally visualize a concept, idea, or relationship.

This chapter explains how to construct diagrams from SmartArt graphics and how to create a diagram. It shows how to customize diagrams by changing the size of diagrams and diagram shapes, adding and removing shapes, and changing shapes’ colors. You also discover how to change ...

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