It is often said: "A thousand words are not as good as a picture".
In the work, often use flow charts to express key steps, corner ideas, time nodes and other events, and making good use of flow charts often makes you express ideas more quickly and clearly, which is more convincing than simple text descriptions.
So how to make a high-value, easy-to-express time flow chart in word 2016?
The time flow chart in the word, the system has its own, but this kind of flow chart is not very beautiful, in many cases, we need to do a flow chart that is more suitable for us.
Preparation steps:
(1) First open Word 2016 and adjust the paper orientation to landscape orientation.
Click Layout → Page Setup → Paper Orientation → Landscape.
(2) Click [Insert] → [Shape] → [Arrow Summary], then find the "Dovetail" shape and click to illustrate the graphic, and set [Shape Outline] to [No Outline].
(3) Click the dovetail arrow graphic selected, click the right button to select [Add Text], enter the text and simply set the text format, hold down the ctrl key, drag with the mouse, copy out 5 graphics (this is based on their own needs to determine the number).
(4) Insert a vertical line (hold down the alt key), insert two more ellipse and fill the color, select the ellipse, line (hold down the ctrl key and click with the mouse to select them all), set the alignment to [Horizontal Center], and then combine these shapes.
(5) Again, copy it out of 5, three above and three below.
First do the above three [vertical alignment], then hold down the ctrl key, click each shape with the mouse, select all, hold down the ctrl key again, drag the mouse to the bottom, adjust the position.
(6) Insert a text box, enter the relevant text, copy out 5, and adjust the position to fit, in order to increase the visual effect, the position of the text box can have an intricate position.
(8) Select all text boxes, right-click [Format Auto-Selected Graphics/Images], and set [Color] and [Line] to None.
You can also select a graphic, click Format in the menu bar, and then change the Shape Outline and Shape Fill functions to change the color.
Finally, remember to combine all the inserted graphics into a whole to avoid misalignment.
The production of time flow charts is not so complicated, mainly involving some shapes, text boxes selection, insertion and color, line and other settings, the shape here can be selected according to the actual needs of different shapes.
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