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How to Make a Project Tasks Mind Map from Brainstorm

Start a project with creating a mind map, structuring ideas captured during a brainstorming session. The easiest way to start a new project is to conduct a brainstorming session that identifies the necessary tasks and then to develop it into a project schedule.

How to Customize the Default Map Theme

ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you to customize all kinds of visual aspects of your mind maps, including the style of topic lines of the default theme for new maps.

How to Set the Default Theme for your Mind Maps

Find out a favorite style for your mind maps, then set it as the default for all your new mind maps.

How to Customize the Style of Your Mind Map

Tips on how to modify or create your own mind map theme and then use it for a new map?

How to Format a Mind Map on Mac

In ConceptDraw MINDMAP, you can customize the appearance of a mind map by changing topic shape, text colors and font; fill colors and patterns; line weight and style. Using the full range of formatting capabilities you can create aesthetically appealing mind map which can be the key to the effective presentation of your ideas.

How to Format a Mind Map on PC

Using ConceptDraw MINDMAP formatting capabilities is useful for creating aesthetically appealing mind map which can be the key to effective presentation of your ideasБ.

How to Brainstorm with ConceptDraw MINDMAP

Brainstorming is a way of generating ideas related to a specific theme. Usually brainstorming involves a group of people generating a lot of ideas in a short period of time. The key to brainstorming is putting off the process of evaluating ideas until a later stage. The participants keep a record of their ideas as they come to mind, without thinking them over. Unorthodox and unusual thoughts are welcome, and no criticism or justification is allowed in order to encourage participation. Though one can brainstorm individually, the technique works better in a group, as ideas expressed by one participant trigger more ideas from others, often based on associations, and the participants can benefit from each other’s experience and knowledge. Brainstorming using a software tool has a lot of advantages over the traditional way of capturing ideas like flip-charts or white-boards. The latter have physical size limitations, which constrain the process as the number of ideas grows. Ideas become scattered around the room, making it is easy to overlook important ideas. Further grouping and prioritizing of ideas is inconvenient and requires a lot of effort. ConceptDraw MINDMAP helps to avoid these problems. Read here how to run a Brainstorming session with ConceptDraw MINDMAP

How to Change the Form and Color of a Topic’s Line in Your Mind Map

You can completely customize the style of your mind maps, including the style of topic lines and outlines. This article describes how to change the form and color of a topic’s line in your mind map.

How to Create PowerPoint® Text Slides from Mind Maps

ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you to create a traditional PowerPoint Presentation from your mind maps. Here is an instruction on how to create PowerPoint slides from a mind map.

How to Create a PowerPoint Presentation from a SWOT Matrix

You can use SWOT analysis PowerPoint presentation to represent strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats involved in your SWOT matrix. We recommend using ConceptDraw MINDMAP for identifying and structuring factors employed in SWOT Analysis. Then, you can export the SWOT Matrix to PowerPoint slides.

How to Format Topics

ConceptDraw MINDMAP enables you to change the form and color of a mind map topics. Here is the tips on how to edit mind map appearance quickly by changing topic's form and color.

How to Import Text to ConceptDraw MINDMAP

Mind mapping is a quick and efficient way to start up a project. When you create a mind map, it might be necessary to use previously recorded files, notes, or text outlines. The importing capabilities of ConceptDraw MINDMAP allow you to easily convert text into a mind map. You can quickly turn your TXT file to the hierarchical structure of mind map. You can convert the entire TXT file as well as a selected part. ConceptDraw MINDMAP supports the ability to convert text in both single-page and multi-page mind map. You can create a multiple page project mind map quickly, using various text work-pieces. Read this article to find out how to create your multi-page mind map from a text outline.

How to Insert a Mind Map into Microsoft Word Document

ConceptDraw MINDMAP offers several options of converting your mind map to MS Word document. You can choose the proper format that meets your needs to communicate the content of your mind maps. Generate text, presentations, images or web pages that are pertinent to your work. Primary, you can export a mind map to MS Word. This method allows stylizing the document by using a custom MS Word templates. If you need to combine text and hierarchically structured information in a single document, the best solution is to incorporate a mind map into the MS Word document using the copy-paste capabilities of ConceptDraw MINDMAP.