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PowerPoint for 97 has added much better flowcharting capabilities with many of the standard flowchart symbols in the AutoShapes library. What's more, you can now add connectors that will stay connected between shapes so that as you move the shapes around, they stay connected.
I also have Visio for Professionals (which I use for complex network diagrams) but if I'm going to do a simple flowchart or org chart, I still use PowerPoint.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Williams [SMTP:diane_williams -at- YAHOO -dot- COM]
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 1998 10:47 AM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Flow Chart Tools?
What programs do y'all use for flow charts?
I'm inclined to just draw things by hand in Word or PowerPoint since
all the folks I work with have MS Office and won't likely have special
tools like Visio to make any changes.
