Alignment problems when making a flowchart

[Swarles_Barkley]

When I make a flowchart in Excel I have difficulties getting the figures at the exact same heigth so as to make straight arrows when connecting them. I know there is an option you can select that kind of divides your sheet into a series of equally sized grids (if it is not 100% clear, I am not talking about the standard Excel view) where for example if you would move one of the figures with the mouse it would move a set distance (say, half a grid) rather than some distance on an continuous line.

I'm looking for this option, but I can't seem to find it. Thank you very much for your help!

[Andy Pope]

Have you tried the Alignment options?

Drawing tools > Format > Arrange > Align.

[Olly]

Not sure about a 'snap to grid' view, which you seem to describe... (Maybe Format > Arrange?)

But you know you can specify precise shape dimensions, in the Size properties of the Format ribbon tab? You can also select multiple shapes and align them (top, left etc), to make sure they are all positioned evenly.

Hope that is some help.

[Swarles_Barkley]

This might be a solution to the specific problem I presented in the original post, but it is not what I am looking for. I am creating a timeline and I would like to be able to play around with the sizes of my shapes so that they visually correspond to an amount of time passed. Doing this in a continuous system correctly is very frustrating. To make it clear, in standard Excel in an area of 4x4 grids you have nearly infinite slightly different areas to place a shape. There is a function where you would move the shapes in discrete steps, which allows for maybe 20 different ways to position a shape in a 4x4 grid area.

[Swarles_Barkley]

Yes snap to grid that's it! It is under drawing tools --> align so I guess you were both right. Thank you I did not see the function because I didn't have any shapes on my sheet yet.