A PowerPoint Quick Trick
I found myself needing to create some chart icons this week and I was without my trusty Adobe Illustrator.
I instead brought out PowerPoint and began drawing some up quickly. It was working fine until…
![](https://kerrykolosko.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image-41-1024x578.png)
… I realised I needed a Chord Diagram…
![](https://c.tenor.com/JQ1up4smImIAAAAM/yikes-eleanor-shellstrop.gif)
… how was I going to draw that?
I thought perhaps I could use an image of a chord diagram and recolour it. I searched for an SVG image of a chord diagram and imported in to PowerPoint.
![](https://kerrykolosko.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image-42-1024x924.png)
I right-clicked on the SVG and saw there was a “Convert to Shape” option
![](https://kerrykolosko.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image-43.png)
Which converted the SVG into individual shapes. Wohoo!
![](https://kerrykolosko.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image-44.png)
I could now select a shape to recolor it…
![](https://kerrykolosko.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image-45.png)
![](https://kerrykolosko.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image-46.png)
Fabulous!!
![](https://kerrykolosko.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image-47-1024x278.png)
Happy Vizzin’
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