How to make personalized charts with word tools

Early Office was really bad in terms of aesthetics [哔~], probably because people who have been working on secretarial editing for a long time are not sensitive to beauty. However, from the era of Office 2010, the function and color of the Office suite suddenly showed a qualitative leap. The new SmartArt is a fast design gospel, plus PPT more cool animations and transition effects, let me directly Office 2007 passers-by turns black, embracing 2010 to the present.

SmartArt is a new charting tool for Office that includes lists, flowcharts, structure diagrams, diagrams, matrices, pyramids, and more. There are several chart types to choose from under each category. Word's words are inserted in the upper menu - "SmartArt", PPT is the same. Then select the type of chart you want in the pop-up window. It is worth noting that some charts only support the first-level directory, and it is convenient to switch it anyway without worrying too much.

SmartArt is just that, of course, can not be used for design, but its intelligent and humanized level has reached a point of horrific. First of all, its hierarchical structure is very clear. Secondly, according to your chart type, when editing text, the chart will automatically add and delete elements. You can add as many items as you like. The size, number and position of the elements will be automatically arranged according to your text. Of course, the font size will also be — — When the word is too much, its font size will be automatically reduced.

There are of course a variety of styles, whether it's a color scheme or a presentation format (although in terms of form, I think Office is a bit late, and several pseudo-3D themes are doing very bad … 2D theme is basically Can handle all the flat winds we can see now … … If you think the system default color theme is not enough, you can also directly modify the color theme of the document, as shown below:

My screenshot is In the 2013 edition, the color theme of Office 2010 uses adjectives to describe each color, which is more suitable for beginners who are not familiar with the original color. Of course, if this does not satisfy you, Office also supports various customizations, color filling commonly used in PS, Pattern fill, gradient fill (linear, radial, symmetrical), Office can do it. Now even projection, reflection, external illumination, feathering, 3D can do it, and the customization is very high.

Aligning and cascading these functions are also available. The only fly in the ointment is the unit and positioning problem. The default units for Word and PPT are cm. PPT There is also a (not very good) reference line. Word's alignment method is only the pixel eye except the alignment tool. [When using Word, pay attention to the SmartArt's word wrap (layout, in the format). For “Float above the text” or “ lining the text below”, otherwise there is no way to drag it freely.]

In terms of output format, in addition to being saved as PDF, you can also use The print function is sent to OneNote, and then saved as a png image in OneNote (pretend you are using PS or AI!).

Such a bad design tool, don't think about it~?