• Like colorful flow charts but hate the time it takes to make them?
• Know good looking color schemes when you see them but have the artistic skills of a caveman?
• Want a free and easy way to spruce up your Excel flow charts and process maps?

Yeah, me too. So I created the Flow Chart Styles Cheat Sheet. It’s an Excel file that you can download and use to format your Excel flow charts. The file contains instructions on how you can easily apply the formats to your flow chart symbols using Excel’s Format Painter toolbar function.

The current revision has a nice assortment of solid fill colors, gradient fill colors, and themes (i.e. groups of complimentary colors) based on the built-in themes for Excel’s Organization Chart tool. In a future revision, I plan to add a number of custom themes.

If you have any artistic talent and would like to share, then I’d love to hear from you. If I like your designs, I’ll attribute your theme and back link to your site (if applicable) when the next revision is posted.

Update: FlowBreeze 2.0 now has 84 built-in styles that emulate the Excel 2007 styles.