Create your next workflow diagram in PowerPoint® 2000. Workflow diagrams are particularly helpful when you want to show a process. For example, if you are giving a presentation on your company's latest product, you could show the life cycle of the product. Make a flowchart in PowerPoint to help your audience visualize each step in the product's development.

To create a flowchart

Before you create the flowchart, you need to display all the tools that you will need. Then you create the shapes and connecting lines of the flowchart itself.

1. To open the Drawing toolbar, on the View menu, point to Toolbars and then click Drawing.
2. On the Drawing toolbar, click AutoShapes.
3. On the AutoShapes menu, point to Flowchart.
4. Drag the Flowchart menu to a convenient location on your screen. This creates a floating toolbar, that keeps all of the tools you need visible as you work.
5. Using the same method with the AutoShapes menu as in Step 4, create a floating toolbar for the Connectors menu.
6. On the Flowchart toolbar, click the flowchart shape you want.
7. To insert a shape of a predefined size, just click the slide. If you want to change the size, on the slide, drag the shape to the size you want.
8. To add a connector, click the connector you want on the Connectors toolbar. On the slide, drag the connector between two shapes.
9. Repeat Steps 6 through 8 for each flowchart shape and connector you want.
10. Close the floating toolbars when you are finished with your flowchart.

Note   If you plan to use the same shape more than once, on the Flowchart toolbar, double-click the shape you want. This lets you make the same shape repeatedly without choosing the shape each time. To turn off the shape, click the shape once on the toolbar.