Making A Process Flow Chart In Excel
Flow chart in excel step 1.
Making a process flow chart in excel. Under the smart art select process. While still holding the left mouse bbutton down drag the line to the next shape. Then draw and resize the shape as you need and type the text you want into the shape. The flowchart in excel is a chart or diagram which shows the workflow of the process.
Now we have a default flowchart. Open the excel worksheet where you want to add a flowchart. Just enter your process data to the excel flowchart template then export to automatically create the shapes and connectors that visually tell the story. The choose a smartart graphic dialog box will appear.
In the flowchart each of the steps will be presented in shapes like square oval diamond or rectangle. Pay attention to the items listed on the left and select process. A gallery will appear with a variety of basic shapes including lines arrows and geometric shapes. Hover the mouse over the first shape and you will see the available connection points highlighted by red dots.
In the illustrations group select smartart to open the choose a smartart graphic dialog box. Scroll down and select the repeating bending process. Then repeat the above steps to insert shapes and type all the process steps into the shapes. Press the insert a smartart graphic button under the illustrations group.
Flow charts usually define specific symbols for different entities e g. The advantage here is we have pre drawn shapes. The key is to look in the smartart process category. Parallelogram is used for data input output illustration.
Go to the insert tab. Diamond is used for conditional branching. Click the flowchart shape you want to add then drag the shape to size on the excel sheet. For the first box type business entity type.
Scroll down to find the flowchart section. With your open worksheet click the insert tab at the top of excel. A process flow chart template uses symbols and diagrams to depict complex processes from start to finish. Rectangle with round corners is used for starting and terminating states.
Place the cursor on the worksheet and click insert shapes and select the shape you want from the popped out list. Go to insert smart art. After clicking the line type in the gallery follow these steps to add it to the flow diagram.