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How do i add like a shaded box around certain sections of my flow chart?

  • May 17, 2022
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Moinur A

how do i get a shaded grey box to go behind certain areas of my flow chart? like if I wanted to take a section of my flow chart how do I add a shaded background around that section without it going over the actual flow chart? hope it makes sense? maybe it can be shown to me via loom video or something? thanks

Best answer by Eric R

Hi there thanks for posting in the Lucidchart Community! You can send shapes to the background via right-click > Arrange > Send to Back. See below a recording of the steps you can take to set a grey background for a section of your flowchart:

 

For more information on this please take a look at the Organize and Arrange Objects article in our Help Center. 

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Eric R
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  • May 17, 2022

Hi there thanks for posting in the Lucidchart Community! You can send shapes to the background via right-click > Arrange > Send to Back. See below a recording of the steps you can take to set a grey background for a section of your flowchart:

 

For more information on this please take a look at the Organize and Arrange Objects article in our Help Center.