Creating MindMaps with Word - a guide
This guide shows you how to create a MindMap using Microsoft Word.
MindMaps: visualization of your thoughts
With MindMaps, thoughts can be sorted particularly well and above all visualized. For example, you can use it during brainstorming to collect various ideas and thoughts, to organize them and to implement them more quickly afterwards.
Word: Create MindMap
With the Word writing program, MindMaps are relatively easy to display. You can visualize your thoughts on the computer in no time at all and can print, send or publish the MindMap.
- Open a blank Word document. Under the upper tab "Start" you will find the "Shape" symbol, which you can use to insert various shapes in the document.
- Start with a shape in the middle of your sheet. For example, after you have created the circle, add the text with a right click "Add text".
- How to create all of your sub-points for the mind map. You can change colors, fonts and sizes as usual.
- After you have created all the points, all you have to do is connect the individual shapes. You will find corresponding lines under "Form" and "Lines and connections".
If the functions for designing your MindMap in Word are not enough for you, we will present the 3 best programs for MindMaps in the next practical tip.