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Creating beautiful process diagrams with a teardrop shape

February 28, 2025 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

Process diagrams are very useful for depicting (obviously) processes. Processes are a common topic in presentations and describing them with just words doesn’t work very well.

In this post, I’ll explain 2 ways to create a process diagram:

  • Using SmartArt
  • Creating it from scratch, to give you more variations and possibilities.

Let’s start with this slide, “4 pieces to the online marketing puzzle.” The 4 pieces are website, email, products, and events. But because I’m suggesting that this is a process, that is, you start by creating a website, then build an email list, and so on, it’s a process. You do one after the other.

A quick way would be to turn it into SmartArt, following these steps:

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Filed Under: Charts, tables & diagrams, Shapes & text boxes Tagged With: diagram, PowerPoint, PowerPoint tips, process diagram, SmartArt, teardrop

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