Understand, connect, create & communicate more effectively with Spark-Professional
For visual mapping, outlining, writing and making presentations Spark Professional 5.0 is the best planning and productivity tool. Brainstorm ideas, structure your thoughts and visually communicate concepts with the map and document views. Take notes, plan work, structure writing, and prioritise and organise information for projects, papers and reports using the integrated split screen view. Use the presentation mode to transform the content of your idea maps and documents into polished presentations that professionally and clearly communicate your ideas.
With Spark Professional it is easy to create idea maps that promote creative thinking and help you organise, analyse, evaluate and present information. Use Spark Professional to develop:
- Block diagrams
- Concept maps
- Data flow diagrams
- Flowcharts
- Idea maps
- Knowledge maps
- Meeting notes
- Multimedia planning
- Notes
- Organisational charts
- Outlines
- Plans
- Process flow diagrams
- Presentations
- Reports and proposals
- Speeches
Visualise & Develop Ideas with Diagrams and Maps
See your ideas more creatively and present them with more clarity. Use Spark-Professional map views to facilitate brainstorming, clarify deas, collect and communicate information, analyse problems, and resolve both simple and complex issues.
In Map View:
- Brainstorm and capture ideas quickly.
- Use symbols to represent your ideas visually - choose from over 2000 in the image library, make your own symbols with the builtin drawing tool, or import image files from your computer or the web.
- Show relationships between ideas with links.
- Add text to links to explain relationships or use built-in linking text phrases.
- Differentiate ideas with colours, shapes, patterns, shadows, fonts and styles.
- Start and finish your document within Spark Professional with its unique built in text editor.
- Get a unique perspective on your map with our 3D view/rotate function.
- Expand your mind map’s central idea by adding new
- topic and subtopic branches.
- Rearrange and connect ideas easily by dragging branches into place.
Plan & Organise Written Work in the Integrated Word Processor and Unique Split-screen view
With one click, your Spark Professional diagram or idea map becomes a document using our unique split screen viewer, where you can easily expand and organise your ideas. Add, rearrange and structure your document by clicking on the idea in the map. You can also navigate the document quickly by clicking on the idea to see that part of the document in the text window. Spark Professional is great for producing organised reports, proposals and other pieces of writing.
In Text View:
- See the final document.
- Use the table of contents to jump to nany selection with
- one click.
- Print or transfer the document into Microsoft Word.
Communicate & Present Knowledge with the builtin Presenter
Present your work with the built-in Presenter. Use the content you have developed and create successful presentations. Spark Professional provides all the tools to create organised, polished, formal presentations that convey your ideas clearly. Use the FREE Spark Presenter to show your presentation easily on any Macintosh® or Windows® computer where you don’t already have Spark Professional.
- Use the Split Screen in your presentation to give your audience an overview and keep them interested.
- Use the unique 3D rotation feature to animate moving from slide to slide..
- Adjust the presentation parameters to tailor the presentation to your needs.
Enhance & Improve Your Projects with Additional Spark Professional 5.0 Capabilities
- Use Templates to jump-start projects. Choose from builtin templates or create your own for future work.
- Use hyperlinks to access resources from the Internet or to attach other documents when you want to collect project documents and source materials in one place.
- Use drag & drop, copy & paste, to insert graphic, video or sound to your Spark Professional documents.
- Visually plan a web site in Spark Professional and then use the web upload wizard to create the initial site structure. Each idea becomes a separate web page. You can even show split screen views on your web site.
- Get started using Spark Professional quickly with the built-in help system and animated demo accessed from the Help menu.
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Computer Requirements:
Microsoft Windows Version:
166 MHz Intel Pentium or compatible processor (*), Microsoft Windows
95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista or 7 operating system, 128 MB of
RAM (*), 60 MB of free hard disk space (more if spelling dictionaries for
multiple languages are required (approx. 20 MB per language)), colour
video card and monitor with 800x600 resolution. (*)
Apple Macintosh Version:
300 MHz PowerPC G3 or Intel processor (*), Apple MacOSX 10.3.9 or
higher, 128 MB of RAM (*), 60 MB of free hard disk space (more if spelling dictionaries for multiple languages are required (approx. 20 MB
per language)), colour screen with 800x600 resolution. (*)
(*) Note that the execution speed of certain programme features such as spell checking, auto-arrange and 3D view will benefit greatly from more RAM and faster processor. You will also find that a better screen resolution and larger screen make working with Spark-Space much easier and more intuitive.
