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Creating SmartArts for MS Office

Office Smart Art Templates

Creating custom SmartArts for MS Office

Docs

Basic concepts

Not to many available guides and examples. MSDN Exmaple files not available

• MSDN Gudie
• MSDN Reference
• Stack Overflow
• Multiple Examples

XSD Schemas are available (sometimes helpfull to understand allowed values)

• Schema Source 1
• Schema Source 2

Styles of SmartArts

• MSDN

How to

BlockAgenda & NumberedList as commented examples for simple list-like Smartarts. The common workflow is to create a refrence Smart Art in an empty presentation and adopt the content to create a custom SmartArt.

2 Tasks:

1. Task to zip and deploy custom Smart Art
2. Task to start PowerPoint with a new empty presentation