Create sophisticated professional diagrams with Microsoft Word tools

This document introduces you to Word's basic diagramming features and explains how to use them to create great diagrams. Along the way, it creates an illustrative example.

Microsoft Visio and specially designed diagramming applications like it give you a set of tools that allow you to diagram practically anything. However, in some cases, those tools can overwhelm and confound you when all you want to do is make a simple diagram or graphical representation. For small diagramming tasks, Microsoft Word may actually be a better choice then its specialized cousin Visio. This download shows you how to use Word's basic diagramming tools by explaining how each feature works and by creating an illustrative example.What is your favorite diagramming application? Do you find specialized diagramming apps too complicated and cumbersome to be worthwhile or do you derive benefit from all of those features?

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