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Sometimes you need to draw multiple shapes of the same type on a slide, maybe a hundred smiley faces on one slide, or even a hundred stars on a dark blue slide.
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Tagged as: 06-04, Duplicating Shapes and Drawing Multiple Shapes, Shapes, Tutorials
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Kyle Murtagh is a public speaker. In 2018, he founded Confidence by Design, an industry-leading presentation skills company that has helped people from all walks of life to transform their public speaking abilities – from global corporations to ambitious entrepreneurs.
His passion, hard work, and talent have also led him to win multiple public speaking accolades, both in Scotland and on an international level. Not only that, but Kyle is now a successful author! His debut title, The 5 Pillars of Effective Public Speaking has received 5-star reviews from readers across the globe, who have discovered how to harness their public speaking potential to achieve tangible results.
Here’s a list of links on Indezine sites, where he has been featured:
How to Make Your Feedback Inspiring
June 2, 2021
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SmartArt in PowerPoint has replaced the diagram options in previous versions of PowerPoint. SmartArt also allows you to replace bullet points with info-graphic content using text-within-shapes that are more logical to view and present. There are different SmartArt categories available. Additionally, you can also add an additional SmartArt category that shows content from Office.com.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Add Office.com SmartArt Graphics in PowerPoint 2010

Tutorial Code: 11 03 07
Previous: 11 03 06 Format SmartArt Graphics Text Attributess
Next: 11 03 08 Creating Timelines Using SmartArt
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After inserting a SmartArt graphic in PowerPoint, you can add animation to your SmartArt. You’ll discover that the entire graphic animates at the same time. It may seem that you have no control over animating individual SmartArt shapes, but that’s not entirely true since PowerPoint does provide some control over animating SmartArt shapes.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Animate SmartArt in PowerPoint 2013
Animate SmartArt in PowerPoint 2010
Animate SmartArt in PowerPoint 2007
Animate SmartArt in PowerPoint 2011

Tutorial Code: 13 04 05
Previous: 13 04 04 Animate Text in PowerPoint
Next: 13 05 01 Trigger Animations in PowerPoint
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All the SmartArt layouts have text placeholders, which are basically text boxes. You can click and start typing within these placeholders to add text. In the previous tutorial, we showed you how to insert a SmartArt graphic within PowerPoint, or convert some bulleted text to SmartArt, and how the SmartArt Text Pane works.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Format Text Attributes of SmartArt Graphics in PowerPoint 2013
Format Text Attributes of SmartArt Graphics in PowerPoint 2010
Format Text Attributes of SmartArt Graphics in PowerPoint 2011

Tutorial Code: 11 03 06
Previous: 11 03 05 Convert SmartArt Graphics to Shapes
Next: 11 03 07 Add Office.com SmartArt Graphics
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