Special Edition Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2002

Design Corner: Enlivening Your Organization Charts

You can use PowerPoint's organization chart functionality to create a variety of hierarchical charts and then use the style gallery and other formatting features to enliven your chart and make it coordinate with the rest of your presentation. For example, let's say you created a basic org chart for your department using the default options, showing you as the department manager with an assistant and three staffers reporting to you. It conveys the basic information you want, but lacks pizzazz (see the following “Before figure”). You decide that you want to apply a different style, bold the names and titles to make them easier to read, and increase the font size in the shape that contains your ...