
Open your SVG with one of these editors, make your changes then save back to your computer before adding to an Office document. There are many SVG editors out there and for occasional or one-off needs, the online editors are enough. Why Because our shape (lets assume a triangle) is just three points. Resize the 4 Compartment SVG Box Divider: Adjust one of the rectangle pieces to have the dimensions of 4 inches wide by 2 inches high.

See Make simple changes to SVG graphics for more detail. Starting with simple shapes, an Illustrator file is much smaller as the image gets larger. We will use this size box for the following examples.

We often open an SVG to change the colors of individual segments or remove unwanted parts before adding to an Office document. SVG files are plain text that can be opened and edited in any text editor like Notepad. For better editing options or even simple color changes of individual segments, we have to go beyond Office. Office Icons can only be changed using the inbuilt editing features but for external SVG’s there are other editing options available before importing into Word, Excel or PowerPoint.Įither of those options within Office 365/2019 have their limitations as noted.

SVG is basically an open standard language for drawing two-dimensional (2D) graphics in. Even with Office Icons the SVG object separation isn’t all it should be. More than 30 alternatives to choose: Boxy SVG, Creative Docs. By all means try ‘Convert to Shape’ but don’t expect a lot.
