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Smart Art Templates for Word 2007
The Microsoft Office Newsletter tells from where to download some new
smart art templates. I did that, and put them in a folder of my choosing, as they did not suggest an Office folder. The instructions are to open Word 2007, click insert - smart art - and choose a gallery. Well, surprise, surprise, they aren't showing up in any gallery. How do I tell Word 2007 where to look for the new templates? Or, to where should I move them to have them show up? -- Hollis Paul Mukilteo, WA USA |
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:15:50 PST, Hollis Paul
wrote: The Microsoft Office Newsletter tells from where to download some new smart art templates. I did that, and put them in a folder of my choosing, as they did not suggest an Office folder. The instructions are to open Word 2007, click insert - smart art - and choose a gallery. Well, surprise, surprise, they aren't showing up in any gallery. How do I tell Word 2007 where to look for the new templates? Or, to where should I move them to have them show up? The download page should have placed a .glox file in the hidden folder C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\SmartArt Graphics. If you downloaded it to somewhere else, copy or move it there. You may have to search through the SmartArt gallery for the new template. The template itself tells Word which category to put it in, but the web page doesn't give you any hint of where to find it. For example, the Picture Organization Chart template goes into the Hierarchy group, while the Tabbed Arc template goes rather arbitrarily into the Relationship group. (If you know the trick of changing the extension from .glox to .zip and opening the archive, you can find the category in the \diagrams\layoutHeader1.xml file.) -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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wrote: The download page should have placed a .glox file in the hidden folder C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\SmartArt Graphics. If you downloaded it to somewhere else, copy or move it there. Thank you, Jay. I tried to follow that path, and was blocked at Documents and Settings. Even though I ran as administrator, it would not let me open that file. Do you know how to do that? Anyway, I do have access to the stuff under My Name, including and Application data. So, I followed it down to the SmartArt Graphics folder, found it was empty, and pasted in the new .glox files. Sure enough, I was able to find two of the new graphic thingies, whatever it is. There were, of course, all those that come with the Office07 installation. It is really a shame that they can't show the colored graphics in the list, so we could recognize the new ones by their colored scheme. I know why Post Flakes are called Heart Smart cereal; do you know why these are called SmartArt graphics? -- Hollis Paul Mukilteo, WA USA |
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Hollis Paul wrote:
It is really a shame that they can't show the colored graphics in the list, so we could recognize the new ones by their colored scheme. I don't know whether there's some technical reason the gallery is monochrome, but it seems unlikely. Full-color galleries would make a good suggestion for the next version of Office. I know why Post Flakes are called Heart Smart cereal; do you know why these are called SmartArt graphics? I got my degree in Math/CS, not in Marketing, so I'm too stupid to know the answer. :-) I guess MS got tired of prefixing all their feature names with "Intelli". -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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In article , Jay Freedman wrote:
I don't know whether there's some technical reason the gallery is monochrome, but it seems unlikely. Full-color galleries would make a good suggestion for the next version of Office. Well, I hope you will make it. I will probably be an Alheimeric vegetable staring all day at a BSOD and thinking what a wonderful picture I am looking at. Blue has always been my favorite color! Not having marketing savvy is not a sign of stupidity in my book. I was hoping that there was some operation associated with the graphics, like sucking in ads from Google or such that might be related to the labels inserted in the graphic Icons. If not, then they seem just as dumb as the others. -- Hollis Paul Mukilteo, WA USA |
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Hollis Paul wrote: I was hoping that there was some operation associated with the graphics, like sucking in ads from Google or such that might be related to the labels inserted in the graphic Icons. If not, then they seem just as dumb as the others. I looked at the Layout1.xml (for the Tabbed Arc) text--added the line feeds so that one could actually read it--and saw the following parameter tags: alg type="cycle" param type="stAng" val="-40" / param type="spanAng" val="80" / param type="rotPath" val="alongPath" / /alg I thought maybe that the icons would move along the rotation path, but when I created one, there was no movement. It is, however, quite easy to set it up and change the size and colors. And you can get a 3-D effect, for what its worth. Nice enough for a Microsoft Product. I am sure that the development tool makers will make it a much more snazzy feature. One always has to leave room for the developers, or you get accused of monopolizing the marketplace. -- Hollis Paul Mukilteo, WA USA |
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