How To Make A Basic Flowchart
Click flowchart and then select basic flowchart.
How to make a basic flowchart. To show the grid check the box next to gridlines in the show section of the view tab. For each step in the process that you are documenting drag a flowchart shape onto your drawing. Select the shapes menu and then click new drawing canvas at the bottom of the menu. Click the flowchart category.
The basic flowchart symbols are diamonds and rectangles. Back at the shapes menu select the shape you d like to use in the flow chart. While there is no strict protocol as such when it comes to using boxes circles diamonds or such symbols in drawing a flowchart they do help you to illustrate and make sense of the types of events in. Connect the flowchart shapes by holding the mouse pointer over the first shape and then clicking the small.
A canvas allows more freedom to work with shapes and enables some features that aren t normally available such as connecting lines. Making a flowchart in powerpoint since you re going to be working with shapes you might find it helpful to have powerpoint show a grid you can use to size and line up objects. Once you select the shape you ll notice your cursor turns into a crosshair. Gridlines will now appear on your slides.
Since this is our first shape being used in the flowchart we ll use the oval shape. The easiest way to create a flowchart in word is to first create a canvas. To draw the shape click and drag. On the file menu point to new.
However if you have a process with a tangled flow or you need a custom layout you can build a complex flowchart in word using rectangular diamond round and other box types. Let s go ahead and insert our first shape.