Smart Art Templates for Word 2007

[Hollis Paul]

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?

 

[Jay Freedman]

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.)

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Hollis Paul]

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?

 

[Jay Freedman]

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".

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Hollis Paul]

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]

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.