Inserting a “SmartArt” graphic

“SmartArt” objects are new in “PowerPoint” 2007 and replace the “Charts” in previous versions. A “SmartArt” graphic can be used if you wish to convey your ideas, visually.
To add “SmartArt” graphics, click the “SmartArt” button under the “Insert” tab in the “Ribbon”.
In the dialog box that appears, we find 7 different categories on the left:
“List” – “Process” – “Cycle” – “Hierarchy” – “Relationship” – “Matrix” -” Pyramid”.

In each category, we have different types of graphics.
Each type has different views, which are displayed as thumbnails in the middle of the dialog box.
When we select a “thumbnail”, then a larger preview of this, along with a brief description is displayed on the right side of the dialog box.

We can insert a “SmartArt” in different ways.

One way is to click the “SmartArt” icon in the “Placeholder box”.

A second way is by selecting the “Insert” tab in the “Ribbon” and clicking on the “SmartArt” button.

In both cases, the “Choose a SmartArt graphic” dialog box opens.

Select the “SmartArt” that you wish to insert into your slide and click OK.
For all this to be done a little faster, double-click in the “SmartArt” dialog box.

This adds the “SmartArt” to our slides and places two contextual tabs in the “Ribbon”:
“Design” and “Format”.

Converting text to “SmartArt”
A third way to insert “SmartArt” is to convert existing text to “SmartArt”.
To do this, first select the text that you want modified to a “SmartArt” object.
Right-click the object and in the drop-down menu, select the “Convert to SmartArt” option.
In the drop-down menu that appears, select a style, or select the “More SmartArt Graphics” option.
If you select this last option, the “Choose a SmartArt graphic” dialog box is opened.

Whatever you do, this places the selected text from our slide into a “SmartArt”object.

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