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let's make a simple flow chart
to do that i want to have my basic shapes
close at hand and sense this is just are simple toolbar we can tear it off and
move it to the side
i want to do the same thing with our connectors
i'm going to start my flow chart
and this is going to be for a simple program that reads in data
processes it
and creates a little summary report
let's start
type in start
now i just started typing i did no clicking or anything special
now i need my
input output box
read
input
i'm going to have a decision that's this diamond
going to ask iif it is the end of data
if it is not the end of data i'm going to
process the data
and then i'm going to read in my next record
if it is the end of data i'm going to
create my report
and then end
my flowchart
so that's all my boxes now i want to add in my connectors and i'm going to
make all these the one-sided arrow, arrow on one side and just the connector at
the other end
i'm going to click this twice, if I double click it
i can add multiple
and i won't have to click connector everytime
there's one
and watch this one here it goes out over
and back
so i've added all my connectors i'm going to hit escape
to get back to my arrow
and i want to have a little yes and no for my end of data
i can't just type it in i've got to come me down and click on this text
end of data this will be yes
and I'll have to click it again because I didn't
double click it - No
and if i wanna movies around i would move my arrow over until I see the
four-sided arrow then I'm clicking now we see that it's got those little blue
boxes
i have those
i can use my arrow keys to move it
or
i can move it around by dragging it
if i need to change the text
i would click it again
to get in in
and change the text
now looking at our page
to make this little smaller
we will see that it is kind of bunched up there
i want to spread it out a little more
so i've got my regular arrow
i'm going to select these two
i can use my arrow keys to move this
and noticed that it brings the connector with it
i don't have to readjust connector
if i want is the bottom one
now i've got a straight line
I'll bring this one down a little bit
and i'm going to bring this one down by dragging it
and now i'm going to do a little last minute
adjustment with the arrows
Let's bring this one down by clicking on it and dragging it
i want to bring my yes and no down as well so for this one...
i'm going to want to use my selection again
select them all
and i'm all set
move just one more to move down
so there we have it simple flow chart created in libra office draw
