Hi.
In this video we will examine a PowerPoint tool called Smart art a smart art graphic is a visual representation
of your information that you can quickly and easily create.
Choosing from a variety of layouts in order to effectively communicate your message and ideas by using
smart art PowerPoint users are able to select from a number of ready made smart art graphics.
Let's provide a practical example.
By opening the Insert tab and selecting smart art when you create a smart art graphic you were prompted
to choose a specific type of smart art graphic such as list process cycle hierarchy relationship which
depends on the message that you would like to convey.
Each type of smart art graphic contains several different layouts after you choose a layout.
It is easy to switch to a different layout or type of smart art graphic most of the text and other content
including colors styles effects and text formatting are automatically carried over to the new layout.
In this example we will select a type of smart art graphic called Basic Chevron process we can easily
adjust its size by clicking on one of its corners and reshaping it to what we need.
Let's fill the three boxes with some content.
For example I'll type Monday Tuesday and Wednesday inside the three arrows.
You can see how the font size of all three boxes adjusts automatically in order to allow the text to
fit in each of them.
We can change the font in exactly the same way that we do for the rest of the objects in PowerPoint
by selecting the graphic and modifying the font of this election
let's change the type of smart art chart and see what happens.
PowerPoint automatically converts the graphic to the type of smart art that we've selected.
Moreover it preserves the content that we have already introduced.
We can add additional shapes by using the add shape button in order to find it.
We will right click on one of the shapes of the graphic and select whether we want to add a shape before
or after the one that we have selected.
The graphic automatically adjusts the size of all components in order to fit the new shape.
If you would like to erase one of the shapes within a smart art chart you can select it and use the
delete button on the keyboard in order to change a particular shape within a smart art graphic we can
selected and right mouse click on it.
Then we can select change shape and click on the desired type of shape the design tab contains a few
other interesting options.
For example we can invert the graphics direction by clicking on the right to left button
we can change the order in which elements are shown by selecting an element and using the move up and
move down buttons
smart art graphics are an efficient way to include schemes in PowerPoint.
We'll continue to explore their practical application over the following parts of this course.
Thanks for watching.