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OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials

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OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials

Overview of this book

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why settle for anything less? Creating good visualizations to substantiate your ideas is essential in today's corporate environment. Use OmniGraffle's remarkably powerful and flexible features to get your diagrams right. Although fun to use, it can get cumbersome to find out exactly how to get what you want.This book will teach you how to make stunning diagrams without spending much time and energy. No matter if you have never used OmniGraffle, or if you are using it on a daily basis, this book will teach you how to get the most out of this splendid diagramming tool. It will first teach you the basics of the program and then extend your knowledge to a higher level.The book will teach you to make eye-popping visuals using a lot of useful, step-by-step examples. It begins with covering concepts that beef up your basics of using OmniGraffle. The earlier chapters will teach you to prepare dazzling diagrams from scratch with the many stencils, shapes, and fonts that are included in OmniGraffle. As your understanding of OmniGraffle broadens, the book will go even deeper to explain the less understood features of the software. It also covers some handy time-saving techniques such as workspaces and keyboard shortcuts.By the time you reach the end of this book, you will have mastered OmniGraffle to turn your ideas into diagrams.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface
9
OmniGraffle workspaces
Index

Mouseless Editing


Learning to use keyboard shortcut commands is, in most programs, including OmniGraffle, a real time saver. It may seem like a bother to learn all these commands—but your brain will thank you in the long run. At the end of this book section, there is a longer explanation of why keyboard shortcuts matter in the long run.

Keyboard shortcuts and OmniGraffle

The same is true when using OmniGraffle. Remember the first diagram you made in Chapter 1. You used the mouse a lot, mousing back-and-forth-and-back-and-forth to finish your diagram.

This book is trying to teach you all the keyboard shortcuts OmniGraffle has.

If you are a beginner with OmniGraffle, or once-in-a-while user of the program, there is probably no sense in learning all these keyboard shortcuts.

However, if you create a diagram at least once a week (and this is probably not your most enjoyable task at work), then you should go ahead and learn all the keyboard shortcuts—if not for any reason other than to get the job...