How To Insert Visio Flowchart Into Powerpoint

Click on the visio icon on your computer s desktop.

How to insert visio flowchart into powerpoint. Add text and shapes to your flowchart text can be added to the shapes in your smartart graphic by. Add text to shapes connectors and pages to give your diagrams meaning. Copy and paste the entire graphic. Browse to the saved file and bring it into your slide.

Back on the insert tab shapes. This action embeds the diagram meaning it remains a vector graphic and stays linked to visio even though it s in a powerpoint slide show. To build the chart using shapes from the gallery specifically use the flowchart group for the shapes and the lines group for the connectors between shapes. Open microsoft visio 2010.

Another method starts with powerpoint. To do that in powerpoint click insert shapes. If you choose to use smartart to build your diagram follow these steps. Create your flowchart or diagram or open an existing visio file that you want to insert in a powerpoint presentation.

Click insert shapes and select elbow connector in the lines section. As a visual aid for sizing and positioning shapes click view and check gridlines. If you prefer keyboard shortcuts to mouse clicks press the alt key to bring up the ribbon and then h for the home tab v for paste and u to paste as an image object. Click edit then click.

Make sure that the color scheme or template of your powerpoint slide conforms to your timeline design. Since this is our first shape to insert in the flowchart we ll use the oval shape to indicate the starting point. A picture may be worth a thousand words. Select a flowchart from the smartart drop down menu in ms powerpoint navigate to the slide where you want to add a.

Link the last symbol of a flowchart column to the first symbol of the next column through an elbow connector. Let s go ahead and insert our first shape. Click select under the editing group in the home tab and then click select all 3. Click file open and navigate to the visio diagram you want to copy and place onto a powerpoint slide.

Once you select the shape you ll notice your mouse turns into a crosshair. To add text to a shape i select it and begin typing. But without text your diagram is just shapes on a page. Let s add text labels that explain the purpose of the shapes in this diagram.

Choose insert object from file and then select microsoft visio diagram.