How to Make a Swimlane Flow Chart in Excel

[@nitinbhosale01]

I tried along with your video instructions and i am deeply satisfied with how it turned out. Thank you so much for your tutorial.

[@stevejob6079]

A fantastic delivery of the topic in question. Thank you for providing insights in this stage.

[@juanx.l6843]

Super! I was looking for the Visio equivalent function and here is the solution! Easy to understand and follow...

[@LeeLoo_22]

Wow. That was amazingly easy. Thank u so much for great demo video. And thank for making it short simple and quick.

[@RossMaynardProcessExcellence]

Excellent quickstart video on process mapping in Excel. Top marks!

[@derekwaters1980]

You the man David!!!

[@t-roy1605]

You, Sir, are amazing.

[@MrsKhomo_]

For a person that have never created a swim line diagram before this was very helpful 😃

[@viafontoura]

Wow, this was so useful to me and so quick. Thank you!

[@mltlawyer]

Wow. Thank you.

[@innovativesourcing5353]

You are really amazing. I would request if you could explain bit slow that would further help people to understand especially people in Asian continents. Thanks

[@rohitarora6779]

Thank you very much David. It was really helpful to me for preparation of a block diagram of a complex network, quite efficietly.

[@PerspectConsulting]

Well done- tbis will save $$$ from unnecessary subscriptions .. way easy to use than Lucid or VIsio as well ... only the features you need

[@CocoaDivineTV]

Thank you so much!!!

[@suresh1957]

Great stuff. Extremely useful and far easier to use than Visio

[@pabindulakshitha4669]

Just WOW!!!!!

[@irondome5953]

Thanks David.

[@barkhagupta3128]

Thanks David

[@BurRun-kt3tf]

អរគុណThank❤

[@linnag1210]

You explained things so clearly, it was great! Can you please do some videos on how to make timelines for projects? Thanks

[@davidmclachlanproject]

I certainly can 🙂

[@crushnell]

Very cool Great job - Hope I can learn how to "speed it up" that fast too! Thanks again for the great information. I will find it useful.

[@QueenNaestar]

Thank you!!

[@lefebvremathieu]

Very useful.

[@hasnabruneau787]

thanks so much

[@danbrumley8661]

Your explanation of your what your wanting to achieve but your screen play too quick. I'm having to replay the screen for what is happening in the background.

[@JimFaith]

Great job! Thank you.

[@rogerwest3278]

I have never seen anyone move things around in Excel so quickly - you must be using some keyboard shortcuts to get things to snap in to place. Do you have a video showing these by any chance?

[@fidaulfat589]

Can we save swimlane in excel as an PDf ? If i paste this ok excel will this accept formatting

[@Urmy998]

Hello David, i bought from you the 52 PMP template and i am not able to modify the Fishbone Diagram template, although i enabled editing. do you know what might be the cause? many thanks. Guilda.

[@davidmclachlanproject]

Good question. Are you using it in Excel, or Google sheets? Feel free to message me on Etsy, I can help you out there and make some small modifications as part of your order if you like 🙂

[@archana294]

But how do u copy this flow chart to a microsoft report or ppt.I tried converting the flow chart made on excel into a pdf first but its coming broken in two pages seperately.What do i do? I need to prepare it for making a report.what should i do to avoid it?

[@CocoaDivineTV]

This is a great question - maybe zoom out and screen grab? I'd love to know if you found a solution to this

[@archana294]

@@CocoaDivineTV Thankyou. I did find the solution.Screen shot dosent help coz the clarity is a little off. But you can just search how to convert a landscape excel file to pdf, there are plenty of video.That works perfectly fine.

[@funnylady2206]

Moving way too fast. Tired of stopping and rewinding trying to see the options you are choosing. Looking for a video by someone who actually slows down so I can follow.

[@ricorosson5752]

For a 6 minute video you have already taken up 2 hours of my time trying to follow along. You might be good at excel but you have a LOT to learn about education

[@llaw785]

Too fast, how do we write inside a shape?

[@davidmclachlanproject]

My apologies, either double click the shape, or right-click and select "edit text".

[@llaw785]

@@davidmclachlanproject There aren't enough swimlane flow charts out there, could you do another one helping to better understand how the various arrows flow up & down between lanes?

[@davidmclachlanproject]

Hmmm I could possibly - it's not tooooo complex though. Each Lane is a different department or area, if a process (represented by the boxes) is done in that area, then the arrow flows there. The only rule of thumb is the "customer" is usually at the top 🙂

[@llaw785]

@@davidmclachlanproject Customer can either be internal or external, right? I asked 'cos I want to better understand how to use those different arrows correctly, thanks!

[@davidmclachlanproject]

Yes that's it exactly! In most cases it's the end customer but in Lean and Six Sigma a "Customer" is whoever gets the output/benefit of the process, or whoever the process hands off to.

[@mdnax9772]

need to slow down, too fast.

[@joanchristineflores1172]

You did it so quickly and felt extremely rushed. Not ideal for beginners. Slow Down. Please