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How to Import Project Data From MS Excel File

You can import information into the project from MS Excel workbook using the entered fields - fields in which you can enter or edit information as opposed to calculated fields.

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How to Input Data from MS Excel Into a Mind Map

Import data from MS Excel to ConceptDraw MINDMAP

Many people apply Excel documents to store data in the form of hierarchical lists. With ConceptDraw MINDMAP you can easily turn the linear structure of an Excel table in a radial structure of mind map ConceptDraw MINDMAP will create a mind map file (CDMZ) from your Excel (XLS) file. If you keep your information in the Microsoft Excel files, you can import them into ConceptDraw MINDMAP, converting the columns and rows to a hierarchical structured mind map. If you have multiple individual sheets in your Excel workbook, ConceptDraw MINDMAP will turn them into a single multi-page mind map. ConceptDraw MINDMAP lets you import an entire Microsoft® Excel file as well as insert data from the selected cells.

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How to Create a Sales Dashboard

Visual dashboard is a valuable tool for any sales team. Sales dashboard allows you to view and monitor sales indicators that are important for manager and sales staff . It helps to use the timely and reliable information to improve the quality of sales performance and increase sales revenues. ConceptDraw Sales Dashboard solution is a tool for both: sales manager and sales team. It provides the visualization of key performance indicators that are critical to the entire sales organization. The custom sales dashboard displays the real-time information on sales performance KPIs with the help of intuitive and easy-to-understand diagrams and charts.

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How to Export Project Data to MS Excel Worksheet

Excel file created from ConceptDraw project

You can share your ConceptDraw PROJECT files with colleagues who use MS Excel®using the export capabilities of ConceptDraw PROJECT.

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How to Create a PowerPoint® Presentation from a Mind Map

ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you to create a traditional PowerPoint Presentation from your mind mind maps. There are two different variants when exporting to PowerPoint - one places editable text into the template of your choice, the other places the pieces of the map that you want to show into the slides.

Risk Diagram (Process Decision Program Chart)

The Risk Diagram or Process Decision Program Chart (PDPC) is intended to determine the risks of potential obstacles during the corrective actions that can be at the cases of their incorrect performing, and helps to develop effective preventive actions. Process Decision Program Chart it's kind of contingency plan to limit the risks, it determines the consequential impacts of failures on the activity plans. The Risk Plans and Process Decision Program Charts can be extended on several levels and take the form of tree or hierarchy, this form is incredibly convenient for representing the risks and countermeasures. ConceptDraw MINDMAP is powerful software tool for Business, Marketing and Project Management. It is also ideal for easy designing MINDMAP Risk Diagram or Process Decision Program Chart, due to the included "7 Management and Planning Tools" solution to ConceptDraw Solution Park. We recommend to start with Process Decision Program Chart (PDPC) template opening it from ConceptDraw STORE or from the Output tab at ConceptDraw MINDMAP application.

Basic Flowchart Symbols and Meaning

Flowchart Symbols and Meaning, workflow diagram symbols, process flow diagram symbols

Flowcharts are the best for visually representation the business processes and the flow of a custom-order process through various departments within an organization. ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Flowcharts solution offers the full set of predesigned basic flowchart symbols which are gathered at two libraries: Flowchart and Flowcharts Rapid Draw. Among them are: process, terminator, decision, data, document, display, manual loop, and many other specific symbols. The meaning for each symbol offered by ConceptDraw gives the presentation about their proposed use in professional Flowcharts for business and technical processes, software algorithms, well-developed structures of web sites, Workflow diagrams, Process flow diagram and correlation in developing on-line instructional projects or business process system. Use of ready flow chart symbols in diagrams is incredibly useful - you need simply drag desired from the libraries to your document and arrange them in required order. There are a few serious alternatives to Visio for Mac, one of them is ConceptDraw PRO. It is one of the main contender with the most similar features and capabilities.

How to Build a Flowchart

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How to Convert a Mind Map into MS Project XML

The easiest way to start this project is to conduct a brainstorm session that identifies necessary tasks, then prepare a project schedule in the form of a Gantt chart and assign resources to tasks. With ConceptDraw MINDMAP, you can initiate a project using mind map to represent all critical and important tasks. ConceptDraw MINDMAP supports a mind map export to MS Project; it also allows import a project file from MS Project giving team members who use OS X or Windows a working visual map of a planned project.

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How to Plan Projects Effectively Using Mind Maps and PM Easy Solution

The advanced data exchange capabilities of ConceptDraw MINDMAP and ConceptDraw PROJECT allows you to view your mind map as a Gantt chart. This way you are switching between views of the same file.

Gantt Chart Diagram

Gantt Chart is a popular type of bar charts and widely used projects planning method. It helps to illustrate the plan for some project, the progress of tasks, the resources planning, the schedule of works and working time. The Gantt Chart contains a set of intervals (bars) located on the time axis and reflects the use of resources by objects. Each bar represents a separate task in the project, its length is a duration of the work. The vertical axis of the graph represents the list of tasks. Besides, the chart can contain additional data, such as the percents of complete, the total tasks, the tasks dependencies, the key points (milestones), etc. The use of Gantt Chart greatly simplifies the project management and enables to visualize in visual and compressed view the most important information of the project, what resources are used for execution the certain tasks and which must to be the speed of their execution. ConceptDraw Office suite applications help to cope perfectly the project management tasks, to construct easily the basic structure of your project and create a Gantt Chart Diagram. PM Easy solution allows you to plan and execute the projects using the mind mapping technique, to implement planning using mind mapping, and track tasks using ConceptDraw Project.

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How to Work with Multipage Mind Maps

Creating a multipage mind map from separate mind maps

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How to Create Floating Topics in a Mind Map

With ConceptDraw MINDMAP you have the ability to create floating topics that are not connected to the mind map structure. Since a floating topic is not connected to any other topics on the mind map, you can use it for future development of your main idea. This is a good way to make comments that relate to the entire map and not a separate topic.

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