Using Inspiration

Overview of Inspiration

Inspiration integrates dynamic diagramming and outlining environments to help you organize ideas and information. Easily create and modify concept maps, webs and other graphical organizers using Inspiration's Diagram view. An intuitive interface keeps your focus where it should be - on your ideas, not the drawing process. Inspiration's powerful Outline view makes it simple to prioritize and rearrange ideas to create clear, concise essays, reports and more.

Working in Diagram view

Entering your main idea

When you start Inspiration, you're in Diagram view. We'll begin this tutorial as you begin any Inspiration diagramby entering text in the Main Idea symbol. The Main Idea symbol appears in the center of your screen, with the placeholder text, Main Idea, already selected. All you do is type.

1. Type your main idea Family Vacation.
2. Press Shift+Return (Shift+Enter) to end text entry and select the symbol.

Adding ideas to your diagram

As part of our planning, we're going to enter what each family member wants to do on vacation. First, we'll add the idea symbol What we want to do. Then we'll add an idea symbol for Mom.

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