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Sample Flowcharts

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FlowBreeze running in Excel 2003
Typical flowchart: When using FlowBreeze in Excel, the worksheet acts as the drawing canvas, and native Microsoft Office AutoShapes are used to create the diagrams.
Multi-page flowchart example
Multi-page Layout: The Excel work area provides a large grid, making it easy to create multi-page drawings while keeping the entire diagram in view.
Extract text from flowchart example
Data + Diagrams: FlowBreeze's Extract Text tool will grab the symbol text from the flowchart, making it perfect for tabulating attributes and graphing process metrics.
Sample swim lane diagram
Swim Lane Diagram: This picture shows a flowchart created using one of the many templates included with FlowBreeze. More templates are shown below.

Flowchart Wizard: In addition its interactive flowcharting capabilities, FlowBreeze also features a flowchart wizard that will convert your text into a flowchart. The image above shows a simple before and after example.

Standard vs. Basic: The Standard edition of FlowBreeze provide up to 84 built-in styles (depending upon Excel version), 124 symbol types. The Basic edition use black and white styles and 28 symbols.

FlowBreeze User Interface Screenshots

Settings 1 - Active Symbols property Editor
Settings - Screen 1: Sets the symbol styles, symbol sizes, keywords, prefixes, and connector styles before you begin flowcharting.
(Keywords and prefixes let you generate different symbol types automatically.)
Settings 2 - Special Symbols Settings
Settings - Screen 2: Sets the default properties for Terminators, Connectors, Decisions, and Flow Lines to customize your flowcharting experience.
Advanced settings screen
Advanced Settings: Offers further customization for users who want control symbol size, text alignment, branch label format, and flow direction.
Start Flowcharting Window
Start Flowcharting Window: When you begin a flowcharting session, FlowBreeze will prompt you to add a "Start Symbol", whether to hide the gridlines, whether to display guides that help keep your symbols aligned, and what you want the page layout to be.
(Standard edition only)
Start Flowcharting Window with Templates
Start Window with Templates: When you start a flowcharting session, you can choose to load any number of templates, which are used to add swim lanes, block diagrams, and title blocks to your diagrams.
(Standard edition only)
Text-To-Flowchart Wizard
Flowchart Wizard: This tool lets you prearrange the flowchart text on the spreadsheet. The wizard will import the text, and assign symbol types, styling, and connector routings in an easy to use form. Then it convert the text into a flowchart - saving you lots of time.
(Standard edition only)
Flowchart Style Wizard
Style Wizard: After a flowchart has been created, the Style Wizard provides an easy way to change the symbol formatting, symbol types, the font for the symbol text, and the color and thickness of the connector lines.
(Standard edition only)
Solid Fill Styles
Solid Filled Styles: The Standard edition offers 42 solid filled styles. Each shape type can have a style assigned, so formatting is applied as you make the flowchart.
(Standard edition only)
Themed Styles
Themed Styles: The Standard edition also has up to 42 themed styles. The last row of the styles is available only in Excel 2007.
(Standard edition only)
Insert branch screen
Insert Branch: This tool makes it easy to create branch / tree structures for forking process flows and org chart layouts.
Export Flowchart as Image File
Save Flowchart as Picture: This feature supports PNG, JPG, BMP, EMF, GIF and TIF formats.
(Standard edition only)
Export Spreadsheet as Image File
Save Worksheet as Picture: In addition to saving flowcharts as images, you can also capture any spreadsheet content as well.
(Standard edition only)

Click here to see sample Flowchart Templates.