Make A Flowchart In Word Or Excel
Place your cursor at the beginning of the text where you want to add a box.
Make a flowchart in word or excel. To make the gridlines appears head over to the view tab and tick the gridlines checkbox. Open a new blank word document. Insert your smartart graphic with your open worksheet click the insert tab at the top of excel. In word however once you select more than one flow chart shape the font style and alignment commands are disabled.
To start creating a flowchart in excel with smartart graphics open your worksheet. When working with shapes in any office application it s always useful to use gridlines to make sure everything is sized and placed correctly. Press the insert a smartart graphic button under the illustrations group. Excel lets you select multiple flowchart shapes and change the font style and alignment for all of them.
In the case of the flowchart above the shape borders are set to medium thickness in excel but appear much thicker in word so it s best to avoid thick lines when creating the original excel diagram. Your gridlines will now appear on your word document. Select process from the side menu and then select a chart type in the center. Type the text that you want in your new box press enter and then to indent the new box press tab or to negative.
Making a flowchart in word. In the example above the contents of the embedded excel worksheet fit nicely within a letter sized word document in portrait orientation.