apply minimalist style set in word step by step

Add Shape button in the Create Graphic group: Adds an extra circle to the default set of three.

Right to Left button in the Create Graphic group: Switches the small images in the circles on the right to the left side of the large image.

Layouts group: Hover over the thumbnail options to change the layout of the objects.

SmartArt Styles group: Hover over the thumbnail options to see how different effects will look.

Some effects that I suggest you experiment with include these on the SmartArt Tools ribbon > Design tab: While you may be satisfied with the result so far, there are more things you can do with your SmartArt object.

Be careful - if you delete the text box for the large image, the image gets deleted too. And I entered a space instead of text for the large flower image.

In this example, I’ve added the words Whales, Turtles and Toucans for each small image.

There are several ways you can do this - you can do one object at a time by clicking and adding your own words, or you can use the Text Pane window to add them all at once (either click the Text Pane button on the toolbar, or click the blue left/right arrows on the middle left of the SmartArt object’s ‘canvas’).

After adding your images, your SmartArt object should look something like this:.

Now click on one of the circles, then click the image icon in the middle of it and select an image.

I used the Garden image in the Sample Pictures folder.

Navigate to the image you want, select it, then click Insert.

Click the image icon in the middle of the large rectangle to open the Insert Picture window.

The ‘handles’ should be around the rectangle.

In this example, we don’t want any text for the main image (the flowers), so click away from the large text box into the blue rectangular area.

The SmartArt object is added to your document. Note: Even though you choose one of the SmartArt shapes here, your selection isn’t set in stone - you can change it to another shape later.

On the Choose a SmartArt Graphic window, click Picture on the left, then select Accented Picture - the first one in that group.

Go to the Insert tab, then click the SmartArt button.

(You can do much of this in Word 2007 too, but the available shapes are more limited, and some of the steps may be slightly different.)

Open a new Word 2010 document or go to an empty paragraph in an existing Word 2010 document.

All the images I used came with Windows, and are in the Documents > Sample Pictures folder. In this mini-tutorial, I’ll show you how to create an image like that below, using Word’s SmartArt. One of the graphics features that Microsoft really worked on in Word 2007 was SmartArt.

Apply minimalist style set in word step by step