In Excel (or even Word and PowerPoint), select the Insert | Shape menu option.Doing so brings up the Shape drop-down gallery, as shown in Figure 2, below. Locate the Insert group and within this group, click the Shape button. In PowerPoint or Word, access the Home tab of the Ribbon.Excel users can similarly use an available, blank range of cells in their workbook. If you are using Word, just substitute the blank slide area with a blank area on your document. Let’s start with a blank, new slide that contains a slide title and nothing else, as shown in Figure 1, below.Excel’s large screen real estate within each workbook does make it a great home for detailed or complicated flowcharts.However, for larger flowcharts, you can use PowerPoint's hyperlinking options that let you spread the same flowchart over multiple slides.
Alternatively, here are some thoughts that will help you decide which of these three programs work best for your flowcharts: If you already need to create a flowchart in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, then the choice has already been made for you.
