Tips & Tricks: Building Organizational Charts in Google drawings

With the new addition of connectors in Google drawings, it’s easier than ever to build anything from a family tree to a flowchart in just a few minutes.

In honor of the holidays, we thought we’d create a bracket-style showdown between our favorite types of pie.

Select Shape from the Insert menu, and you’ll see a variety of bubbles, arrows, and symbols to choose from. I used the rounded rectangle shape for this example, but you can select the shape that’s best for your flowchart.


From there, you can double-click on individual bubbles to enter text.


When you select and drag a particular object, the snap to guides will help you line it up with other objects.


Hold Shift and click to select multiple objects at once. This allows you to move these objects around as a group.



Next, use our newly launched connector tool to attach lines to your shapes. Even if you move or rotate your shapes, they’ll stay connected.


In just a few steps, you’ll have created an organizational chart that you can share, download, or embed into another Google doc. Try it out for yourself.


Want to know what else you can do in Google drawings? Check out our template gallery for more inspiration.

Posted by: Teresa Wu, Consumer Operations Associate