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Inserting Tables and Charts / Insert Text on a Flow Chart




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Insert Text on an Organization Chart. Once again, charts don't really do anything unless your audience can decipher some kind of information from them, and in the case of an organizational chart, there isn't any information until you enter it. Again the organizational chart, and the different kinds of charts that you can choose, allow you to show relationships between different objects, organizations, people, departments, and so forth, or even cycles and how processes work. So you have to put the correct information on that chart for it to work; the good news is that is really easy. Just select the cell that you want to format and you are automatically going to get a little cursor. At this point, all you have to do is type whatever text you want. I am going to type President. Just as you do with any other slide text, once you type the text, you can always hold down your left mouse key, slide over it and select it, then go up to your toolbar and make any changes that you want. The current font here is Arial. Let's say I want to change that to something else; here is a little tip, if you are scrolling through all of these fonts and you know the font name that you want, just click inside the box here and type it; it is a lot easier. I want to go to Times New Roman and you will see it comes up more quickly, there I have it and then I can adjust the font size as needed. That is smaller, that is larger, and to make it even larger there you go. I can also choose to bold, italic, shadow, and use different colors as I want. So once I format a different text option, I can just continue to type anything that I want to. I continue making those changes throughout the entire different slide. Now remember, as you are working on your organizational chart, you can click the slide show button option at any time and see how things are looking. This will give you a good overall look of how readable it is and if you might what to change different font options and different styles, such as bold and italic and so forth. Now remember, that you can also work with colors. If you type any text, just go back and select it, click format font, you can go back and choose any kind of color that you want, and here I have a blue. I am going to go back and look at this again and here is how it looks. Now as you are working with colors and styles, the same rules that I have mentioned a number of times apply. It is really important that you look carefully and critically at the text on your organizational charts because you want that text to be easy to read. Make sure you are choosing a font that is easy to work with, Arial and Times New Roman work really well and they are easy to read. Be careful with over-styling. That means using too many colors, too many options, such as bold and italic, because in the long run, all those things do is make your presentation little more difficult to read and that is really not what you want. You want your slides to be easy on the eyes and easy for your audience to grasp the meaning quickly and easily, so they focus their attention on you instead of on your slides.

Tutorial Information

Course: Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
Author: Curtis Simmons
SKU: 33455
ISBN: 1932072543
Release Date: 2003-09-30
Duration: 7 hrs / 96 lessons
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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