Flowchart Shapes How To
A step in the flowcharting process.
Flowchart shapes how to. Drawing a structured flowchart. How to change flowchart shapes. For each step in the process that you are documenting drag a flowchart shape onto your drawing. Use rectangles to capture process steps like basic tasks or actions in your process.
Drag them outwards to enlarge shapes and drag them inwards to decrease size. Since this is our first shape being used in the flowchart we ll use the oval shape. The words you use are up to you. Business process charts like employee routines document preparation and approval or online user navigation path on a website or a web store are different from academic flows of algorithms.
Usually academic applications use a limited number of standard shape types but in business different shapes. Click the flowchart category. The rectangle is your go to symbol once you ve started flowcharting. To designate the start of your flowchart you would fill this shape with words like start or begin.
Edit flowchart symbols to resize shapes select the shape and drag the green square handles. It represents any step in the process you re diagramming and is the workhorse of the flowchart diagram. To draw the shape click and drag. Once you select the shape you ll notice your cursor turns into a crosshair.
Create a flowchart start visio. To recolor shapes go to the color bar on the bottom of the screen or fill tool on home menu. Back at the shapes menu select the shape you d like to use in the flow chart. Connect the flowchart shapes by holding the mouse pointer over the first shape and then clicking the small.