Learn How to Diagram Efficiently

We learned how to automatically and manually create business process diagrams in the previous chapters; however, we often need to make some manual enhancements to improve the arrangement or add visual impact. We want to perform these tasks quickly and efficiently, so in this chapter, we will go through some skills to make our lives easier. We will learn how to make some useful hidden commands visible and some shortcut keys and keys combined with mouse actions that can speed up diagramming. We will also learn how to select a group of shapes and align or distribute them. Finally, we will go through the options for adding annotations to shapes and including borders and title blocks.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Editing the built-in ribbon to provide more options
• Learning useful shortcut keys
• Banding shapes together
• Controlling the layout
• Adding callouts for annotations
• Adding borders and titles
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