Special Edition Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2000

Formatting Your Chart

You can quickly create an organization chart by using the default formatting options, or you can make modifications to a chart's text, colors, boxes, and lines.

Caution

Remember to consider readability and visual clarity when you modify an organization chart's defaults. Some formatting can enhance a chart's appearance, but too much formatting can make it confusing or worse—unreadable.

Tip

To copy formatting and apply it to another box or text area, select the area you want to copy and choose Edit, Copy Setup. Then select the new area to which you want to apply the formatting and choose Edit, Paste Setup (or Ctrl+V).

Formatting Text

The default text font is Arial, but you can modify this. Microsoft Organization Chart enables ...