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Tips & Tricks: Building Organizational Charts in Google drawings
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
With the new addition of
connectors in Google drawings
, it’s easier than ever to build anything from a family tree to a flowchart in just a few minutes.
In honor of the holidays, we thought we’d create a bracket-style showdown between our favorite types of pie.
Select
Shape
from the
Insert
menu, and you’ll see a variety of bubbles, arrows, and symbols to choose from. I used the rounded rectangle shape for this example, but you can select the shape that’s best for your flowchart.
From there, you can double-click on individual bubbles to enter text.
When you select and drag a particular object, the
snap to guides
will help you line it up with other objects.
Hold Shift and click to select multiple objects at once. This allows you to move these objects around as a group.
Next, use our newly launched
connector
tool to attach lines to your shapes. Even if you move or rotate your shapes, they’ll stay connected.
In just a few steps, you’ll have created an organizational chart that you can
share
, download, or
embed
into another Google doc.
Try it out for yourself
.
Want to know what else you can do in Google drawings? Check out our
template gallery
for more inspiration.
Posted by: Teresa Wu, Consumer Operations Associate
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