Change the shape style for employee shapes on an org chart

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Adjusting shape styles in Lucidchart allows you to customize the appearance of your org chart shapes and maintain visual consistency across your diagram. By setting a default shape style, you can quickly apply formatting choices to every shape in your org chart at once.

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Adjust shape style

To set or adjust a shape style, follow these steps:

  1. Hover your cursor over the org chart and select the dotted outline.
  2. Clickright-panel-icon.pngthe right panel icon in the upper-right corner of the workspace.
  3. Click Shape style.
  4. Select a shape style from the available options.

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Select a single org chart shape and click Set current as default under the "Shape style" options to have all org chart shapes match the style of the one you selected.

For full instructions to adjust shape style in the classic Lucidchart editor, expand the dropdown below.

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To set or adjust a shape style, follow these steps:

  1. Hover your cursor over the org chart and select the dotted outline.
  2. In the org chart Context panel to the right, select the Layout tab.
  3. Click to expand the Shape Style menu.
  4. Select a Shape Style from the available options.

    how-to-set-a-default-shape-style-for-employee-shapes-in-an-org-chart-in-lucidchart.png

Select a single org chart shape and click Set current as default under the "Shape style" options to have all org chart shapes match the style of the one you selected.

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