Swimlanes are shapes that you can drag onto your drawing and place in any order in your flowchart. Drag to move them or change their size, and drag process step shapes into them to build the flowchart.

In the Shapes palette on the Shape tabs region, select Cross-Functional Flow Chart Shapes . Drag the Swimlane shape or Separator shape and drop them on the cross-functional diagram.

A UML activity diagram in Visio looks like a flow chart. The flow of control is triggered by the completion of actions (or activities) within the system. The flow may be sequential, concurrent, or branched, …

Training: With Microsoft Visio, organize flowchart information into functional divisions with swimlanes. Learn how in this online video.

Use cross-functional flowcharts to show the relationship between a business process and the functional units (such as departments) responsible for that process. The swimlanes in the flowchart represent …

Create a polished flowchart from an associated Excel workbook. Add, edit, or delete rows in Excel, and then refresh the diagram from Visio.

Examples include swimlane shapes in cross-functional flowcharts, legend shapes for data graphics, and control shapes such as list box in the wireframe template.

On the new drawing page, continue your flowchart by adding more flowchart shapes. To move between pages of the flowchart, press Ctrl and click the shape on either page.

You can use the Create Diagram from Data wizard to create a detailed, polished Visio flowchart from an Excel workbook. Follow the steps in the wizard and use this help information if you have questions in …

A cross-functional flowchart is similar to a basic flowchart, but with an added element of structure: containers called swimlanes that represent the people or departments that are responsible for each …