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> Comments please on a good software package to create flow charts. I need
> to create illustrations of application areas.
Visio Professional is all you should ever need. Actually have used the product a few times and today attended a course on it to officially learn it. The product does way more than flow charts and does it very well. I have used other drawing packages to do the same work but the speed and simplicity of Visio is tough to beat.
Karen Koldyk
SQA Tech. Writer
Fleming Companies Inc.