Excel 365
Change the default font for text boxes in Excel
When you create a text box in your document Excel, any text you type appears has the default font
that can be different from version to version...
How to create a flowchart with SmartArt
A flow chart usually shows steps in a task, process, or workflow. There are many different SmartArt templates
predefined in Excel that you can use to illustrate the process, including some complex templates with
pictures.
Draw a flowchart in Excel
A flowchart or flow chart usually shows steps of the task, process, or workflow. There are many different
SmartArt templates predefined in MS Excel that you can use to illustrate the process, including visually
appealing templates with pictures.
However, if you want to use different shapes and a complex topology, it is better to create your own flowchart:
However, if you want to use different shapes and a complex topology, it is better to create your own flowchart:
How to change connector type for flowchart
Most process flow diagrams and workflow charts use elbow connectors for connecting process stages and
elements, but too many connecting lines of the same type give your chart a messy look. Fortunately, you can
combine different connector types that represent semantically different transitions.
How to add text to the connector in the flowchart
When you create the process flow chart, process map, business flow diagram or data flow diagrams and UML
activity diagrams you often need to add some text or labels to the connectors. Unlike other free and
commercial diagram drawing packages, Microsoft Office shapes provide extremely rich text formatting
features.
How to change flowchart shapes in Excel
Business process charts like employee routines, document preparation, and approval, or online user navigation
path on a website or a Web store are different from academic flows of algorithms. Usually, academic
applications use a limited number of standard shape types, but in business, different shapes give a better
look and simplify understanding. However, it is hard to decide which shape is appropriate for the specific
block.
How to change format for diagram shapes in Excel
The Format tab of the Shape Format tab (the Drawing Tools toolbar in the previous
version and Excel 2016) provides a plenty of options for customizing a shape outline, background, and text
settings. Also, you can change spacing and size for multiple shapes at once.
Easily organize shapes in Excel
Every time you add, move, or resize shapes, by default, it isn't easy to align them. Excel proposes features
named Snap to Shape and Snap to Grid that can help to organize shape and any objects.
Change color for gridlines in Excel
By default, gridlines are displayed in worksheets using a color that is assigned by Excel. But if you want,
you can change the color of the gridlines for a worksheet (see also How to turn on and turn off
gridlines in Excel and How
to change width of gridlines in Excel).
How to change width of gridlines in Excel
Gridlines help you align shapes and create consistent dimensions for each object. In Excel, gridlines are
simulated by column borders, and changing column widths and heights essentially controls your gridlines.