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Learn how to create conceptual shapes and art for PowerPoint presentations quickly, add graphics to a flyer in Word, and leverage Office to spice up other business docs. This course walks you through adding shapes and SmartArt to Office docs, and building everything from conceptual graphics to Venn diagrams. Author Toni Saddler-French first explains the basics of working with Office art. She then shows how to resize, organize, and format shapes, and enhance them with fills, themes, preset formats, textures, gradients, 3D effects, and more. In the final chapters, she’ll cover working with SmartArt, including advanced tricks such as converting bullets and text into SmartArt diagrams.
Topics include:
* Inserting and altering shapes
* Resizing and aligning shapes
* Saving and printing documents with shapes
* Adding fills, patterns, shadows, and other effects to shapes
* Inserting text in artwork
* Applying 3D effects
* Working with SmartArt
* Animating SmartArt
* Converting SmartArt
View this entire Using Office Shapes and SmartArt to Enhance Business Documents and more in the lynda.com library.
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