Excel 2000 - 2003 Toolbar
FlowBreeze Toolbar

The following is a breakdown of the main FlowBreeze toolbar buttons.
| • | Start: Starts an interactive flowcharting session. |
| • | Stop: Stops the interactive flowcharting session. This toolbar button is normally grayed out. It only becomes enabled when you are in interactive flowcharting mode. |
| • | Settings: Opens the Settings windows, allowing you to customize the FlowBreeze flowchart rules and formatting. |
| • | Flowchart Wizard: Scans the worksheet for text and loads it into the Flowchart Wizard. Note: Available in Standard Edition only. |
| • | Edit Flowchart: Loads all the Flowchart Editor. Available in Standard Edition only. |
- Create a Template: Loads the Template Generator. Available in Standard Edition only.
- Load a Template: opens a file dialog to select and load the template.
| • | Symbols: Toggles the toolbars for quick access to flowchart symbols, block arrows, and connectors (flow lines). |
- Connector: Opens the Insert Connector tool, that allows you to insert a one or more formatted connectors between sets of flowchart symbols.
- Branch: Opens the Insert Branch tool.
- Group Box: Opens the Insert Group Box tool.
- Label: Opens the Insert Label / Text Box tool.
- Flowchart: Sub-menu with 28 flowchart symbols.
- Connectors: Sub-menu with 9 different types of flow line connectors.
- Basic Shapes: Sub-menu of miscellaneous shapes.
- Block Arrows: Sub-menu of 4 block arrows (up, down, left, right).
- Callouts: Sub-menu of 8 different styles of callouts. Callouts are commonly used to add comments to flowcharts.
- Stars and Banners: Sub-menu of stars (bursts) and banners.
- Hyperlink: Opens the Insert Hyperlink window.
- Export as Picture: Allows you to save the flowchart and/or worksheet as a picture. (See Save Flowchart as Picture for more details.) Available in Standard Edition only.
- Reroute Connectors: Changes connector routing to the shortest path.
- Symbol Key: Generates a symbol key (shape legend), listing all the symbols used in your flowchart. (See Create a Symbol Key for more details.)
- Extract Text: Iterates through the flowchart symbols, extracting the text and creating a list of the process steps. (See Extract Flowchart Text for more details.)
- Default Styles: Applies the default style to all the flowchart symbols and lines. (See Apply Styles for more details). Available in Standard Edition only.
| • | Select Objects (White Arrow): Toggles a special mouse cursor that allows you to select shapes, or to left-click and drag to select multiple shapes. After you are done using it, this toolbar button must be toggled off to resume normal mouse functions. |
- Selection Tool: Opens the Shape Selection tool.
- Select All: Selects all the shapes on the page.
- Symbols: Selects only the flowchart symbols on the page (i.e., no connectors, no labels, etc.).
- Connectors: Selects only the flow line connectors on the page.
- Labels: Selects only the labels on the page.
- Snap to Grid: Snaps the flowchart symbols to the worksheet grid lines.
- Snap to Shape: Snaps a symbol to the edge of another flowchart symbol.
- Create a Grid: Changes the column width to match the row height, creating a grid.
- View Gridlines: Shows or hides the grid lines on the sheet grid lines. (See View Gridlines for more details.)
- Clear Shading: Clears any cell shading on the worksheet.
- Re-Align Shapes: Corrects any slightly jagged connector lines.
- Order: If shapes overlap, you can use the Bring to Front, Send to Back, Bring Forward, and Send Backward. to set how their are layered.
- Align or Distribute: Align or adjust the spacing between multiple shapes.
- Rotate or Flip: Change the orientation of a shape.
- Change Autoshape: Allows you to change a flowchart symbol type after it has been created.
- Group: Creates one shape out of many.
- Ungroup: Splits the grouped shape back into its constituent parts.
- Regroup: If a set of shapes has been grouped then ungrouped, they may be regrouped by selecting a single shape and clicking this function.
- Group All Shapes: In one click it will select all the shapes and group then together into a single object.
- Ungroup All Shapes: In one click it will ungroup any grouped shapes on the sheet.
- Help Contents: This opens a window with links to this help file, the online support page, and an event log viewer..
- Open Walkthrough: Opens the Excel file containing a walkthrough of the major features in FlowBreeze.
- Check for Updates: Opens your web browser to the breezetree.com updates page to check if there is a new version available for download.
- Register: Opens the registration window, allowing you to enter the license key. You can also use this window if you need to check your license information at some later point.
- About: Shows the current version of the software and also displays the registration information
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