How to open Inspiration 6:

Go to “Start.”

Go to “Net Prog.”

Go to Inspiration 7.6.”

Starting Point: screen appears with an oval with the words “Main Idea.”

Typing in an oval:

Type in the oval to see who it appears.

Adding subtopics to your main idea:

From the toolbar an icon (labeled as Create) w/eight attached arrows appears, each pointing in a different direction. Whichever arrow’s chosen, that’s the direction from which the next oval will appear in correlation to the main idea.

Choose an arrow by clicking on it.

Note: to create links from original oval, first click on the original oval (small, boxes & diamonds will appear around the oval to work from)

Moving ovals around on your screen:

Click on the oval and drag.

Choosing pictures/other shapes from the symbol palette:

If symbol palette doesn’t show, go to View & select Symbol Palette.

The symbol palette has a numerous of pictures and shapes from which to choose. To change an oval to one of these pictures, first click on the oval & then find the desired picture (scroll by using the arrows a the top of the symbol palette).

Click on the picture, and the oval will be changed to that picture.

Changing the background color of your screen:

Go to the top toolbar and select “Effect.”

Scroll down to “Background Color”; choose desired background color

Note: Under the “Effect” menu, change the color of text in oval, the oval color itself, & line color & design when you desire. Just remember, click on the piece of the Inspiration document you wish to change.

Changing the font, style, or size of your text:

Go to “Format” on the top toolbar.

Scroll down to “Font,” “Style,” or “Size” to change your text (Note: make sure you have highlighted the oval you want to change.

Using the Rapid Fire icon:

Note: Click on “Rapid Fire” icon to create subtopics w/increased speed.

Remember to have your original oval from which you want to work highlighted with small boxes and diamonds.

When clicking on the “Rapid Fire” icon you will see a small, red thunderbolt appear within your original oval.

Type what you want on your first subtopic and hit “Enter.” This act will create a new oval acting as a subtopic. Remember, you can move this oval around simply by clicking and dragging. If you do, remember to click back on the original oval and click on the “Rapid Fire” icon to work from it again.

Creating hidden details pages for your subtopics:

There are two possible ways of doing so:

A separate web map page itself attached by a hpyerlink:

A. Click on the oval for which you want to create details

B. You can actually hyperlink to Web pages, other files, new

Inspiration documents, even e-mails. Simply click on

“Hyperlink” in the main toolbar. Choose what you want to hy

perlink your oval/picture to, and follow the course of directions.

Note: When hpyerlinking to a Website, type the whole address

(http://…).

A separate “Notes” page itself:

A. Click on the oval for which you want to create notes.

B. To “make a notes page” click on the icon labeled “Note” in

the main toolbar. A small screen appears. You will then be able

to type details here for your subtopic. Hide this listing simply by

clicking on the “box” in the upper left hand corner of the small

“Notes” page.

Creating subtopics and hiding them with the click of a mouse:

A. Create subtopics just as you did when creating subtopics for

your main idea.

B. On the icon where you just created attached subtopics, there

will appear a down arrow. Click on it to hide your subtopics.

Click on the arrow again to have the subtopics reappear.

Adding a picture from the Internet to your space:

Note: Remember to cite images from the Internet.

Do an image search for your particular topic.

Right click on the picture and scroll down to “Save Picture As.”

Make sure it saves as a “JPEG” or “GIF.”

Make sure to save it to your space or on to a floppy.

Note: See the next page for replacing ovals with Internet pictures.

Using picture from Internet in place of symbol palette pics

For the sake of argument, let’s say you have a picture from Google you would like to use in your Inspiration 6.

Save the picture to your space (just in case you lose your Inspiration document and for document memory).

Capture the oval you want to change to your desired picture simply by clicking on it.

Go to “Edit.”

Scroll down to “Insert Graphic.”

Insert the picture by opening it up, and it will appear where you requested it to go initially.

Note: You will handle scanned photos in the same manner.

Changing all icons or texts:

Press the “Ctrl” and “A” keys at the same time. All ovals should then have small red boxes and diamonds around them.

This process is key when capturing an Inspiration page to copy it and place it on a separate document (i.e. PowerPoint). To copy, after pressing the “Ctrl” and “A” keys, go to “Edit” and then “Copy.”

Open up document and go to “Edit” then scroll down to “Paste.”

Changing ovals and pictures to an outline:

Click on the “Outline” icon in the main toolbar.

To change back, click on the “Diagram” icon in the toolbar.

Drawing Line (Links) other than the standard straight format:

Click on the link(s) you want to change.

In the Menu toolbar, choose “Link” and select the shape change you desire.

A small red box will appear within the textbox of the link. Click and drag it to alter the position of your link.

Note: Remember, you can change the size, shape and color of links as well by choosing “Link” and “Effect” from the Menu toolbar.

Creating a Venn Diagram:

Ovals cannot create Venn diagrams, but you can create one manually. On the formatting toolbar you will see an icon with a down arrow next to it. Click on the down arrow and choose “Oval.” Copy this process, and place your cursor next to the oval just created. Then “Paste.” You will then need to create text boxes: Click on the same icon when creating an oval, but this time choose “Textbox.”