Family Tree in Excel Template

Excel Family Tree Template

Excel’s use is tremendous and not only limited to the business world but for personal use as well. Right from managing personal finance budget it will serve to draw the family tree as well. To track your family members we can draw a family tree template in excel. If you are going back to the history of your family then you should be a “Genealogist”. To draw family you need to identify where to start, so it has to start with your Grand Parents level.

How to Create a Family Tree Excel Template?

We can create a family tree in an excel template by using the following two methods.

Method #1

To draw the first member of the family, go to insert tab and draw two Oval shaped shapes.

Select the shape and draw as shown below.

Once the Oval shape is drawn enter the text in the Oval box as “Grand Father and Grand Mother” respectively.

Select the connector line.

Now add connector line between these two shapes.

Now as per your family how many children they have based on that, draw ovals for each children’s of your grandfather and grandmother.

Each Kid has a wife, so draw four more oval shapes with connectors.

Out of four kids, your grandmother & father has 3 boys and 1 girl as their kids. From here on you will concentrate on your family alone.

Let’s say you are the Kid of Kid 2 then draw branches in front of Kid 2. Based on the number of kids your parents have. Assume your parents have 3 kids then draw three oval shapes in front of Kid 2 i.e. Your Parents.

Now from here on you need to draw connector line for your Elder Brother, You and Younger Sister.

Method #2 – Create a Family Tree in Excel using the Copy-Paste Method

When you are drawing the excel family tree first step is to decide on the hierarchy of the family. Once the hierarchy is decided the skill of drawing shapes needs some intelligence.

You cannot keep on drawing the shapes from the Insert tab. Once the shape is drawn we can replicate the same shape for all the other shapes, we need to go back to the Insert tab whenever we require to draw the shapes.

One way of replicating the same shape is a traditional way of copy and paste.

But we have another technique which is best suited for us is this “Select the shape hold the control key and drag the shape with a left click of the mouse, that’s all we will have a replicate of the shape.

A similar technique can be employed to draw connector lines as well.

Next thing we need to learn is the alignment of shapes. For example, in the above steps, after we have drawn four shapes for four kids of Grand Father & Grand Mother, we may end up drawing them like this.

So as we can see those shapes are definitely not in order. Arranging them with the mouse is almost impossible with perfections so how do we align these shapes in order.

Select all the shapes at once. To select all the shapes once hold Shift key and left click on the shapes that you want to select.

Once the shapes are selected, go to FORMAT > Arrange > Align.

Click on the drop-down list of Align and select Align Left.

So, as soon as we click on Align Left we can see all the Shapes are aligned properly from left view.

Now the shapes are aligned properly from the left side. Now we need to align them vertically, so for this by selecting the shapes under Align select “Distribute Vertically”.

Now the shapes are placed perfectly.

SO, like this, we can make use of shapes alignment options to set the placement of the shapes properly.

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