Organizational chart with Photos in PPT 2013 (review)

A few years ago I wrote an article on how to use an organizational chart with photos in PPT 2007.

Organizational chart with photos in PTT 2007

In PPT 2013 you can still do that, there are three possible ways:

Use a built-in SmartArt shape

Click Insert - SmartArt - select Hierarchy and Hierarchy with pictures and circles.

Click on the picture placeholder and add a picture from your hard drive.

Unfortunately the photos are in a circle. You can adjust that easily by selecting all the circles using shift+click. Then right-click one of the circles and on the format tab of SmartArt tools click the change shape button. Select the shape you want, then with all the shapes still selected adjust them using the handles. In the example I choose the rectangle, with adjusted height.

Use an online template

Click File- New - under Search for online templates and themes click the Business category or Photo album category if present.

Select the template with the photos;

Click the Create button.

You can remove the black background. Click on View tab - Slide Master - Background group - Background styles button, select the white background.

Download the SmartArt object from my One Drive and make it part of the SmartArt gallery.

Use the following link to download the glox file.

Picture Organization chart.glox

Put it in the folder:
C:\Users\Name user\Appdata\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\SmartArt Graphics

Start PPT
The new item should be visible in the gallery.