Er Diagram in Ms Word Part 1 - Creating a strong entity

In this first video, we'll create an ER diagram in a Word document or modelling an ER diagram in a Word document we will learn how to create a strong entity to create a strong entity you go up to your Insert tab and then you choose Shapes and under rectangles or flow charts you'll find various shapes. Flow charts are going to be the most useful shapes for ER diagrams however you can obviously find them in other sections as well so we will click on on the rectangle flow chart we'll draw it and you can see that it has a default shape you can choose whatever color you want for me I tend to try to go up and choose one of these so that either a color outline with black or the blue you can do either one you hit black you can right-click on it and add text and put in your entity name you can adjust the size of the text if you like by right-clicking again and just hovering over until you get the size that you like fourteen point looks good we can change the autofill to none we can change the shape weight to half a point, one point one point looks good and it's done. Now at this point, if you want to save this is as your default shape and pattern so that when you start drawing a new shape it will automatically default to that you can right-click and hit save as default shape from here you can place it wherever you want on your screen and that is how to create your first strong entity in Microsoft Word