Powerpoint Flow Charts
It’s been a good number of weeks since I’ve even revisited this blog, but after a friend gave me a wake-up kick I realized that I should probably keep up with it. One can’t write about spaceships and elven longbows all the time.
A coworker at WWT has been slowly showing me how to use Visio and Powerpoint. Just the other day I learned how to draw flow charts with Powerpoint’s auto-shapes.
This is easier than it sounds. You format the powerpoint slide for 17×11 with the anticipation of copying it to a JPEG as a picture. Now, you have a bigger canvas to work with for long, horizontal charts.
Flow Chart City!
For this example, I was then going to insert the JPEG, as a file, into a word document. However, I felt that it looks too squished in a regular 8×11 format. My coworker suggested a simple section break and set the page with the JPEG into Landscape format.
Presto – a nice graphic (woohoo for my first ever flow chart!) in a Word document.
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Yeah, Visio rocks. I actually used it to plot out a story idea I had.
And what’s wrong with writing about spaceships and elven longbows?
I so could have used this when I was working. Well maybe some day this will be helpful for me again.