
IN THIS CHAPTER
Using SmartArt Graphics
and Shapes
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Understanding SmartArt Graphics
and Shapes
Images and artwork provide an interesting visual
break from tables of numbers. Excel 2007 offers a
broad new array of business diagramming tools.
The Excel 2003 Insert Diagram menu held six types
of business diagrams. The improved gallery of 84
SmartArt graphics in Excel 2007 helps you to com-
municate messages about your organization and
processes.
While SmartArt graphics allow you to create dia-
grams quickly, they have one annoying limitation in
Excel 2007: The text in the shapes is static, so there
is no way to link the text in a SmartArt shape to a
value calculated ...