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Effective graphics are a vital part of any business document, and so there are a wide range of programs that will help you design them. You could just pick one to suit your needs: flowcharting, floor plans, form design, desktop publishing, organisation charts? But it's probably simpler to just install ConceptDraw V Personal Edition, which can handle all these types of graphics -- and a whole lot more.
The creation process starts with the ConceptDraw Template Gallery, that appears as soon as you launch the program. It presents you with a long list of graphic categories to choose from, like Building Plans, FlowCharts, Maps and Technical drawings.
Each graphics category then has a number of additional examples, some of which you wouldn't necessarily expect. "Basic Diagrams" has 2D and 3D Blocks options, for instance, which let you draw large, chunky, colorful flow charts. But there's also a Solid Geometry option, which provides a library of shapes (everything from a cube or cone to an irregular polyhedron and four different types of pyramid) which will help you produce more complex geometrical images.
There's a similar depth in many of the other chart categories, too. So FlowCharts includes libraries of the basic shapes you'd expect, but there are also options to produce Data Flow and Cross Functional diagrams, as well as Cause and Effect (fishbone) charts.
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