in this segment of the word tutorial i'll demonstrate how to use smart art in a document in
word smart art is used to quickly and easily make a visual representation of your information so
basically we go here to our document and let's say we want to outline the research paper writing
process so typically you can represent this in a document very similar to this like selecting
a topic then identifying the research problem then collecting the relevant data then analyzing
the data then writing the research paper and proofreading it as well so this is one way that
historically most have done it so you simply list these topics or these areas and that is basically
how you're outlining it however you can take this same information and convert it into smart art
so unlike powerpoint where you can select the information and convert this into a smart art
unfortunately in word you have to retype this stuff all over again so we go here under insert
we go under smart art and then pick one of the processes from here
so let's say i'll pick this first one click ok now i have these options now it's asking me to type
those processes so in this case i'll simply copy them and paste them in here so i don't have to re
type it from scratch and i'm clicking down here where the smart art area is obviously you want to
do this from the start rather than the way that i did and i did that for demonstration purposes
now that you can kind of see that the smartart it's more visually appealing here now to take this
one step further you can double click on the smart art that you just created and notice that the
smartart design tools show up now you can change the design if you prefer to something different
and notice you get the live preview
and once you select one of the designs that you prefer
now you can select also various color schemes as well
and furthermore you can adjust the design of the smart art as needed
so basically instead of you representing that topic by just a bunch of bullet points you're
now using a smart art object to represent the same idea but it's more visually pleasing
now here obviously you can modify this further and adjust certain areas
of your smart art image under the formatting you can then adjust
other stuff here related to it including the text wrapping if necessary you