How Do You Create Business Process Flow Charts With Excel?
A process flow chart is a diagram illustrating steps in completing a procedure, such as building a widget, making a purchasing decision or completing a documentation. Boxes of various shapes represent each step, branching based on decisions and ending at one or more terminator boxes indicating the outcome of the process. Microsoft Excel’s drawing tools offer built-in flow chart shapes that let you easily create a business process flow chart to illustrate your process. Create a new sheet for your chart by clicking the “Insert Worksheet” button next to the sheet tabs at the bottom of the screen. Select all the cells in the new sheet by clicking the “Select All” button in the upper right next to column A and above row 1. Click the “Format” button in the “Cells” group on the “Home” ribbon. Select “Column Width…” Enter 2.14 and hit the “OK” button. This makes all the cells square (for the default 11 point Calibri font), making a nice grid for laying out the chart elements. Activate the “I
