in this tutorial you are going to learn how to make a timeline in word create a new document in Word and you will want to insert a graphic that will represent our timeline from the ribbon at the top click on insert and below this click the smart art logo in the illustrations area the choose a smart art graphic window will open from the options on the left select process and then on the right look through and find one appropriate for a timeline here we are using basic timeline click okay to insert this into your image you will now have to enter data into the timeline here we are going to enter some concurrent events you are also able to add additional events click on the Arrow then right click on it and in the menu that appears navigate to add shape then click add shape after or add shape before here we are choosing to add a shape after this will add a new point to our timeline and we can add text to it just as before and that is how to make a timeline in Word good