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Hi! in this video we'll add a Smart art graph to our presentation 4 4
It will indicate to viewers what active slide they're seeing and what else they can expect after it. When you create a Smart Art graphic, you are 5 5
prompted to choose a particular type such as "list", "process", "cycle", 6 6
"hierarchy" and relationship depending on the message that you would like to convey. 7 7
In this example we'll select the type of Smart Art graphic called "Closed Chevron Process". 8 8
We can easily adjust its size by clicking on one of its corners. 9 9
and reshaping it as needed. 10 10
Given that the presentation consists of eight slides, let's add another five shapes to the Smart Art graph. 11 11
I will select it and use the "Add shape" command. 12 12
It does not make any difference whether we choose "Add shape" before or "Add shape after". 13 13
We can use the F4 shortcut, which repeats the last command that was carried out. 14 14
Perfect. Let's position the Smart Art graph above the slide's title. 15 15
Ok. If we want to modify its style, we can select it and right-click on it. 16 16
in this case the font size is too big let's switch it to 9. 17 17
I would like to change the color of each of the shapes. 18 18
In order to do that we have to hold the "Shift" key 19 19
and select all of them. 20 20
Once we've selected all shapes, we will right- click on them and modify their shape fill 21 21
and font color in the following way. 22 22
Very good. Now I'll type in the names of each of the slides in the exact order in which they would appear in a presentation. 23 23
Once we're done typing, we will copy the Smart Art graph 24 24
and paste it in all slides of the presentation. 25 25
Given that we would like to show our audience what active slide they're seeing, we can go to 26 26
each slide and color the name of the active slide in dark blue. 27 27
Once we have carried out the action, we can use F4 in order to repeat it 28 28
an amount of times 29 29
Let's go through all the slides and color in dark blue the name of the respective slide within the Smart Art graph. 30 30
You notice that the text in the cells that we colored in dark blue is not visible anymore. Let's change the font color of these cells to white. 31 31
I chose to carry out the two operations separately because this allowed me to use the 32 32
F4 command for both of them, which is a little bit more efficient as we're using only one button. 33 33
This is how we can insert a nice Smart Art graph to our presentation. 34 34
Now we're ready to go ahead and start working on the content of the presentation.