(Version 1.52)
Contents

Welcome to ConceptDraw

• Powerful Tools
• It's easy
• Key Features
• System requirements
• Installing ConceptDraw
• Technical Support
• Registration
• The Team

Chapter 1. Working with files

• Creating a new document
• Creating a new document from a template
• Creating a new library
• Opening a document
• Opening a library
• Opening documents and libraries by using the workspace
• Closing the document
• Saving the document (Save, SaveAs)
• Creating a template file
• Creating a workspace file
• Using the Start dialog to create/open documents
• Sending a document by e-mail
• Importing files
• Exporting files
  • Exporting to HTML

Chapter 2. Objects

• Creating figures
• Working with handles
• Selecting objects
• Moving objects
  • Align Figures
  • Distribute Figures
• Rotating objects
• Resizing objects
  • How objects behave within a group
  • Make Same
• Flipping objects
• Changing the order in which objects are displayed
• Deleting objects
• Duplicating objects
• Grouping objects
• Properties of objects
  • Line properties
  • Fill patterns and colors
  • Shadows
  • Copying visual attributes of objects (Same Style)
  • Protection
  • Double click
  • Information
  • Behaviour
  • Hyperlink
• Additional operations on objects
  • Insert Vertex
  • Combine
  • Join
  • Scattering
• Connectors
  • Connection to the entire object
  • Connection to a connection point of the object
  • Smart Connector
  • Object Connector. Direct Connector
  • "Connect Figures" and "Direct Connect" tools
  • Auto-connection modes
  • Connection points
• Pictures
• Working with text
  • Adding text to a new object
  • Modifying text in an object
  • Creating a "Text" object
  • Changing text styles in selected blocks
  • Modifying Text Properties in selected objects
  • Text alignment
  • Cutting, copying and pasting text
  • Working with Text Box
  • Indents and margins
  • Setting the background color
  • Text Properties dialog
  • Working with text in groups
  • Smart Connector's text
• Undo and redo operations
• Copying and pasting

Chapter 3. Document

• Working with the document
  • Zooming
  • Grid
  • Rulers
  • Guide lines
  • Scroll Hand tool
  • Snapping and gluing
  • Scaling in documents
  • Measurements
  • Color Palette
  • Document Properties dialog (General, Page, Settings tabs)
• Printing
  • Arranging a document on pages
  • Printing
  • Previewing the document
  • Printer setup
• Working with document pages
  • Global properties of the pages
  • Printing pages
  • Adding a page
  • Deleting a page
  • Reordering pages
  • Jumping to another page
  • Naming a page
• Working with layers

Chapter 4. Working with the environment

• Templates
• Workspace files
• Program configuration

Chapter 5. Libraries

• Library window
• Library files allocation
• Opening a library
• Creating a new library
• Closing a library
• Saving a library
• Library properties
• Displaying library objects as icons and as text
• Properties of library objects
• Inserting a library object into your document
• Adding an object from the document to a library
• Copying objects between and within libraries
• Deleting an object from a library
• Replacing an object under the existing library icon
• Stamp Tool

Chapter 6. Working with the table

• Input field
• Cells
• Formulas
• Sections 
  • Transform
  • Geometry
  • Endpoints
  • Controls
  • Connect
  • Variables
  • Line Properties
  • Fill Format
  • Protection
  • Text Transform
  • Character Format
  • Paragraph Format
  • Text Block Format
  • Text Field
  • Miscellaneous
  • Actions

Chapter 7. Functions

Chapter 8. Working with other programs (OLE)

• Linking
• Embedding
• Inserting a new OLE-object
• Editing an OLE-object
• Inserting an object from a file
• Inserting an object from an open OLE-compatible program
• Creating a new ConceptDraw object in an OLE-compatible program
• Editing a ConceptDraw object within another OLE-compatible program
• Inserting an object from a ConceptDraw file into other OLE-compatible programs
• Inserting an object from an open ConceptDraw document into another OLE-compatible program

Appendix A. Keyboard Shortcuts

Appendix B. Brief Menu Tour