Concentric Semi Circles - With Text

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I need to draw seven concentric semicircles (half-pies) and be able to type
text over them.

I've drawn seven arcs and have inserted word art, but the requested updates
to the semicircles have become tedious as updates need to be made.

I also tried inserting pie slice autoshape, but couldn't resize the pie (to
a half-pie size).

Has anyone identified a quick approach to create concentric "semicircle text
boxes"?
 
The pie shape should work.

To reshape to a semi circle drag a yellow handle.

To rotate drag the green handle

Resize and align
 
Thanks for the quick response.

The pie shape that I find (search for: pie autoshape) has no yellow reshape
handle; it only has a green rotate handle.

Where do you find the pie shape with the yellow reshape handle?
 
The Pie Slice autoshape is found under AutoShapes => More AutoShapes.

Insert Pie Slice.
Remove the shadow.
Adjust the yellow handle so it is a half circle.
Format => Format Autoshape => Textbox (tab) => Change Text Anchor Point to
'Top Centered'
Resize to the largest semi-circle
(It is easiest if you start from the back and work forward)
Copy and resize to suit
Repeat as required
Recolor to suit

Select all the semi circles
Use Draw => Align and distribute => Align Center
Use Draw => Align and distribute => Align Middle

A set of concentric semi-circles with text.

Entering text into them will be a bit more tricky. To enter text, select
the semi-circle and type the text. Then go to the beginning of the text box
and hit enter as often as required to lower the text to the portion of the
semi-circle where it will be visible.

How this gets you started.


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Select the shape you want to remove the shadow from.

On the Drawing toolbar (by default located on the bottom of the edit window
in PowerPoint) select the shadow tool (this looks like a green box with a
shadow and will usually display the words 'Shadow Style' if you hover the
mouse over it).

Select 'No Shadow'.


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A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
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