Place your cursor at the beginning of the text where you want to add a box. When you need to add a box to your hierarchy, experiment with adding the box before, after, above, or below the selected box to get the placement you want for the new box.Īlthough you cannot automatically connect two top-level boxes with a line in the hierarchy layouts, such as Horizontal Hierarchy, you can imitate this look by adding a box to your SmartArt graphic and then drawing a line to connect the boxes. To delete a box, click the border of the box you want to delete, and then press DELETE. The new box is added after the other box at the same level. To insert a box one level below the selected box, click Add Shape Below. The new box takes the position of the selected box, and the selected box and all of the boxes directly below it are each demoted one level. To insert a box one level above the selected box, click Add Shape Above. To insert a box at the same level as the selected box but before it, click Add Shape Before. To insert a box at the same level as the selected box but following it, click Add Shape After. If you don't see the SmartArt Tools or Design tabs, make sure that you've selected the SmartArt graphic. Under SmartArt Tools, on the Design tab, in the Create Graphic group, click the arrow under Add Shape. Click the SmartArt graphic that you want to add a box to.Ĭlick the existing box that is located closest to where you want to add the new box.
