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Office 2007 Bible
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Office 2007 Bible

by John Walkenbach, Herb Tyson, Faithe Wempen, Cary N. Prague, Michael R. Groh, Peter G. Aitken, Michael R. Irwin, Gavin Powell, Lisa A. Bucki
June 2007
Intermediate to advanced
1224 pages
35h 32m
English
Wiley
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Editing SmartArt Text

All SmartArt has text placeholders, which are basically text boxes. You simply click in one of them and type. Then use the normal text-formatting controls (Font, Font Size, Bold, Italic, and so on) on the Home tab to change the appearance of the text, or use the WordArt Styles group on the Format tab to apply WordArt formatting.

You can also display a text pane, as you saw in Figure 24-1, and type or edit the diagram’s text there. The text pane serves the same purpose for a diagram that the Outline pane serves for the slide as a whole.

Caution

The text in the outline pane is not always in the order you would expect it to be for the diagram because it forces text to appear in linear form from a diagram that is not necessarily linear. It does not matter how the text appears in the text pane because only you see that. What matters is how it looks in the actual diagram.

Here are some tips for working with diagram text:

  • To leave a text box empty, just don’t type anything in it. The Click to add text words do not show up in a printout or in Slide Show view.

  • To promote a line of text, press Shift+Tab; to demote it, press Tab in the text pane.

  • Text wraps automatically, but you can press Shift+Enter to insert a line break if needed.

  • In most cases, the text size shrinks to fit the graphic in which it is located. There are some exceptions to that, though; for example, at the top of a pyramid, the text can overflow the tip of the pyramid.

  • All of the text is the same size, ...

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