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Diagraming with SmartArt

Diagraming with SmartArt - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Diagraming with SmartArt

Microsoft Word has its own diagramming tools built right in. It's called SmartArt, and it's called smart, because as you add content to your diagram, it'll automatically adjust itself to automatically fit text, for example, and position itself correctly on the page. We're going to explore SmartArt now using this document called NO Sport. We'll just click anywhere below the Executive Team heading, and then we'll go to the Insert tab on the ribbon. From here, in the Illustration section, you'll find SmartArt. As you hover over it, you see a brief description here of what a SmartArt graphic is used to do: visually communicate information. So when we click this, you'll see there are a number of categories down in the left-hand side. With All selected, we're going to see all of the various drawings you can create, and it's quite a long list. If you want to focus in on specific categories, just click them down in the left-hand pane. For example, if you want to look at Lists, Block Lists…

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