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Sign up for other newsletters | Unsubscribe | Update your profile Correction to Feb. 6 Side by Side tip The Side by Side tip published on Feb. 6 contained an error. You can apply SmartArt graphics to an existing bulleted list in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, but not in Microsoft Office Word 2007. The corrected tip is below, along with two others. Happy Friday the 13th! 2003 to 2007 SmartArt Diagram To make your Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 presentation more compelling, you might insert a diagram. Unfortunately, clicking the Insert menu and then clicking Diagram presents only six available commands, and all of your supporting text must be entered in individual text boxes. With Microsoft SmartArt in the 2007 Microsoft Office system, you can right-click an existing bulleted list in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, and then click Convert to SmartArt. Then select from the 20 default options, or click More SmartArt Graphics and browse through a large gallery of available diagrams. You can use the SmartArt Tools contextual command tabs to change the diagram type or apply interesting effects like three dimensions or color options. To edit SmartArt text, click the diagram, and then edit your text in its familiar list format in a box that appears to the side of the diagram. Watch your diagram dynamically change to match the new text. Previewing Charts in Grayscale You can preview your charts in Microsoft Office Excel before you print. 1. Open the file that you want to print, click the Office button, point to Print, and then click Print Preview. 2. On the Print Preview ribbon, click Page Setup, click Sheet, and then click Black and white. The preview will be in grayscale so that you can evaluate whether the contrast is good enough to distinguish the lines, bars, and columns. Print Information into Office OneNote 2007 Use the Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 print driver to print any document as an image into your notebook. You can annotate printed documents in your notebook, similar to printing a document and taking notes on the paper printout. You can quickly find text within these documents printed to OneNote by performing a simple keyword search. To print a document to OneNote: 1. Open the document, such as a Microsoft Office Word document or a Web page, that you want to print. 2. Click the Office button, point to Print, and click Print. 3. Select Send to Microsoft OneNote in the list of available printers. 4. Click Print. 5. Drag the resulting OneNote page to the relevant section of your notebook. • Tips and Tricks Web site • Microsoft Office Online • Help Privacy note: Microsoft respects your privacy and that of your friends. Please do not use the Tell a Friend button to send mail to more than 10 people. Microsoft cannot collect any data about the people you send mail to unless they sign up for Tips and Tricks Special Delivery. To cancel your subscription to this newsletter, reply to this message with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line. You can also unsubscribe at the Microsoft.com Profile Center. You can manage all your Microsoft.com communication preferences at this site. Legal information Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 Sign up for other newsletters | Unsubscribe | Update your profile © 2009 Microsoft Corporation Terms of Use | Trademarks | Privacy Statement