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Is there a way to develop custom SmartArt for PowerPoint. I'm not looking for a way to develop "fake" smart art, like add a bunch of shapes and then group them and copy/paste between presenations. I'd like to create a number of new SmartArts that are based on this kind of fake SmartArt that my company uses, but have it "smart", like hitting Enter adds another shape with the right colors and text formatting. Has anyone done this before? Thx!
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Change the layout, color or style Select the SmartArt. Select the SmartArt Tools > Design tab. Hover over the Layouts to preview them, and select the one you want. Select Change Colors, hover over the options to preview them, and select the one you want.
Select the shape closest to where you want to add the new shape. On the SmartArt Tools Design tab, in the Create Graphic group, click the Add Shape drop-down arrow. Select whether to add the shape before, after, above, or below the currently selected shape.
Insert pictures in SmartArtSelect Home > Convert to SmartArt. Select More SmartArt Graphics and then select Picture. Select the SmartArt you want and select OK. To insert a picture, select the picture icon, go to where your picture is located, and then select it.
It can be done, but isn't particularly easy. I tried doing this about 2 years ago, had some minor success, and then gave up primarily because of the lack of some kind of WSIWYG tool or object model. It's all hand-entry of XML (functional programming XML no less!)
But the resources I used at the time were:
After I had given up on it, I stumbled upon a website called Loki's Diagrams where he/she had an abundance of custom SmartArt. It was really cool to see someone had succeeded with this.
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