5 Lucidchart Features You Didn't Know About

There's a specific set of Lucidchart features that, without a miss, create jaw-dropping reactions followed by this exact exclamation:

"I didn't Know Lucidchart Could Do That!"

Here are 5 of these powerful features that our 15 million Lucidchart users across the world rely on to SEE more, KNOW more, and DO more:

1. Link Data To Your Diagrams or Visuals

Lucidchart's data linking feature enables you to add a layer of data to any of your diagrams, or?visuals. You can easily do this by importing data sets from Google Sheets, Excel spreadsheets, or CSVs to create powerful, data-driven visualizations.

Data linking makes it easy to:

1. Create automated data visualizations.
2. Connect live data to shapes and diagrams.
3. Monitor changes in your data and keep it up to date.

Pro Tip: If you link data from a Google Sheet, you'll get live/real-time updates, as Lucidchart will automatically pull any data updates straight to your linked visualizations.

2. Create and Present Slides in Presentation Mode

Lucidchart’s presentation mode allows you to transform any of your visuals and diagrams into a seamless slide deck presentation complete with attention-grabbing transitions—all in a matter of seconds. Next time you have to present something, go ahead and make it in Lucidchart, slap some presentation mode magic, and I promise your audience will be mesmerized.

Presentation mode makes it easy to:

1. Craft a presentation right inside of Lucidchart.
2. Create beautiful dynamic slides in seconds.
3. Visually present captivating slides to your audience/team members.

Pro Tip: Love using Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint? We’ve made it possible for you to export your Lucidchart slide presentation to either of those platforms. #Boom

3. Create an Account Map / Org Map for Sales

If you're in sales, scrolling through endless rows of text-based contacts in Salesforce doesn't help you connect the dots of who is who in an account/company. By connecting your Lucidchart account with Salesforce and LinkedIn Sales Navigator, you and your sales team will be able to seamlessly create visual account maps/plans sourced from your Salesforce instance and enriched with LinkedIn's powerful contact and account data.

Lucidchart account mapping makes it easy to:

1. Visualize decision makers, champions, influencers, and more.
2. Quickly build an account map by dragging and dropping contacts from Salesforce right into Lucidchart.
3. Keep your SFDC contact/account hygiene up to date with bi-directional sync.

Pro Tip: Turn on Lucidchart's LinkedIn Sales Navigator integration, and you'll be able to save leads, connect, send inMails/messages, discover insights, and more without ever having to leave Lucidchart.

4. Integrate with Apps You Already Use

Because our customers use and rely on other specific tools, apps, and platforms to get their job done on a daily basis, we've strategically partnered with over a dozen software platforms so our users can think, communicate, and collaborate visually within those platforms. LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Zapier are two of Lucidchart's latest integrations you should check out.

Lucidchart integrations makes it easy to:

1. Quickly visualize information/data from other systems.
2. Create and share diagrams from Slack, Atlassian, Quip, and more.
3. Harness the power of Lucidchart to enrich apps you’re already using.

Pro Tip: See all of Lucidchart's integrations and stay up-to-date with new ones HERE.

5. Create Custom Shapes

If you and/or your team are having to constantly create a specific set of diagrams, shapes, or visuals over and over again, you'll want to create a reusable custom shape in Lucidchart. Once it's made, you and your team will be able to simply drag and drop the shape onto the canvas, and the entire diagram/visual will auto-populate with the exact settings, shapes, and edits that were originally created with.

Lucidchart custom shapes makes it easy to:

1. Standardize a repeatable and scalable process.
2. Save time on an individual and team basis.
3. Increase your team's efficiency.

Pro Tip: If you create multiple custom shapes, you can add all of them to a custom shape library and then toggle the "share" button in order share the library with users in your same Lucidchart account.

About Lucidchart

Lucidchart is a visual workspace that combines diagramming, data visualization, and collaboration to accelerate understanding and drive innovation. Lucidchart empowers 15 million users worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 500, to see and understand how their business works, so they can innovate faster.

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