Special Edition Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2002

Understanding Diagrams and Organization Charts

In PowerPoint you can insert detailed diagrams and organization (org) charts directly in your presentations. PowerPoint's new diagram functionality is just one of several ways to insert dynamic, conceptual illustrations in a slide. Using diagram options such as Cycle, Radial, Pyramid, Venn, and Target, you can visually represent a variety of concepts and ideas—and then make the diagrams match the color scheme and look of your overall presentation. And the revised org chart functionality enables you to display a hierarchical structure of your organization—and more. Although org chart terminology—subordinate, co-worker, and so forth—is directed to a corporate environment, you can use an org chart anywhere ...