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Title: Flow Chart Creator
Post by: Heather Reetz on June 08, 2016, 01:15:01 PM
What's a good one out there? 
Title: Re: Flow Chart Creator
Post by: Jim Jensen on June 08, 2016, 01:56:54 PM
MS Visio used to be. Is it still around?
Title: Re: Flow Chart Creator
Post by: Bob on June 08, 2016, 02:38:05 PM
Visio isn't free.   Could use a free trial before buying?  Part of MS Office 365 and it's good. 

I am not a fan of FREE apps (usually come with free malware or worse) unless open source like open office, but when ever I can, I use open office before buying an app.    Open office has a product called Apache which is a flow chart creator.  I would try using it.

https://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html (https://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html)
Title: Re: Flow Chart Creator
Post by: Debbie Fuson on June 08, 2016, 02:38:30 PM
I would think Visio would be the main one.  I don't have Visio, so I just use PDFX-Change Editor.  It lets me draw boxes and arrows and stuff, so it works.
Title: Re: Flow Chart Creator
Post by: Jeff Golas on June 08, 2016, 03:46:20 PM
I believe Visio does offer a free trial via O365, but there's powerpoint that can be used sometimes, and I'm sure there's a ton of other tools. Let us know if you find something good because I need something like this as well.
Title: Re: Flow Chart Creator
Post by: Jim Jensen on June 08, 2016, 04:16:44 PM
Quote from: Bob on June 08, 2016, 02:38:05 PM
Open office has a product called Apache which is a flow chart creator.  I would try using it.
https://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html (https://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html)

Great suggestion! I forgot about Open Office
Title: Re: Flow Chart Creator
Post by: Billy Welsh on June 08, 2016, 06:25:26 PM
Open Office does a very good job on these.
Title: Re: Flow Chart Creator
Post by: Lynn Stillings on June 08, 2016, 06:45:58 PM
I used Chartist for a number of years, pretty basic and simply to use. It's still out there, and very reasonably priced.
http://www.novagraph.com/

We now use SmartDraw, it does flowcharts and whole LOT more that you may not need. It's pretty good, but does way more than the average person probably is looking for.
Title: Re: Flow Chart Creator
Post by: Mark on June 13, 2016, 10:36:29 AM
We used RFFlow years ago.  Looks like they are still around: http://www.rff.com/index.htm
Title: Re: Flow Chart Creator
Post by: Kenny Cruzan on June 21, 2016, 03:45:16 PM
We use Smart Draw.