Chapter 4. Gallery of Process Charts

Process charts allow you to illustrate a step-by-step process. All the built-in process charts are designed for a process in which every step is sequential. They are not flow charts; you can’t have conditional steps or branching logic in process charts.

A popular element in process charts is a shape called a chevron. It seems to me that Microsoft uses a fairly liberal definition of a chevron, which the dictionary defines as a distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a noncommissioned officer’s coat.

You can agree that the red and blue stripes in A1:C10 of Figure 4.1 look like the marks on an officer’s uniform. If you color the two stripes in blue and red, the image appears as the logo for a ...

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