Creating a Flowchart in OpenOffice

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to show you how to create a flowchart using OpenOffice. Let's go to our computer and we're going to open up OpenOffice by clicking on the Start button, let's go to all programs, let's find OpenOffice and then click on Writer. Now this is going to open up OpenOffice and what we want to make sure as you can see, I've already got the drawing toolbar down here on the bottom. We want to make sure that's visible for you so we're going to click on the view menu at the top. Now we're going to go to toolbars and check the drawing toolbar, as you can see mine is checked. If I uncheck that, it disappears. If I go to view toolbars and click on drawing, I now have my drawing toolbar. Now these are some objects rather that you can use to draw your own flowchart in OpenOffice. So I'm going to start by just dragging a little rectangle on here and let's say we're doing something for the evaluation of our employees. I'm going to drop a rectangle on there and I'm going to double click on it and that allows me to type inside of it. So we're going to say evaluate employees. And I'm going to click off of it and I'm going to add an arrow by finding my block arrows button here and I'm going to choose to draw just sort of a down arrow. I'm going to draw an arrow pointing down. Now right next to that, I'm going to add a text object by clicking on text then just clicking next to it, or actually I have to draw a little box, I'm going to draw a little box next to it and I'm going to say good evaluation and that will create us to another object that I'm going to make a circle as an action, I'm going to double click in that, I'm going to say give raise. Now from the evaluate employee, I'm going to drag another arrow going off to the right here and next to it I'll have a text item that says bad evaluation. And the action item for that is going to be discipline employee. So it's that easy to make you a little simple flowchart using OpenOffice. It's a very good tool for making decisions and deciding where you're going to go given different circumstances. My name is Dave Andrews and I've just showed you how to create a flowchart using OpenOffice."