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Discussion Forum > More Mindmapping Questions

I'm looking for software that will let me take my mind map and paste it into Word. So far, no such luck, looks like most just paste plain text. Anyone have any ideas? A picture file to add to my word doc is fine, but finding these mindmap programs limited outside their native environment.

March 5, 2012 at 19:14 |

I just discovered that Freemind has a pretty good copy/paste facility. Select a node in Freemind, choose Copy, switch to Word, choose Paste, and it gives you a hierarchical bullet list (outline) of that node and all its children.

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

March 5, 2012 at 19:27 |

Seraphim

If its only the image you need with no editing ability IN WORD then capture a screenshot and paste into word as a .jpeg file?

March 5, 2012 at 20:37 |

michael

I use a software package called Inspiration which exports your mind map to a Word document. It also has tons of templates that are useful for business or education purposes.

March 5, 2012 at 22:26 |

PaulB from Canada

I'm pretty sure that Freemind has a number of export options, including a picture that you can paste. I'm not ABSOLUTELY certain because I'm using XMIND now. Which has, amongst other things, an export which creates a Word document with a picture at the top and a heading/sub heading/ sub sub heading/ ... for each branch.

March 6, 2012 at 13:36 |

Will

Like Will mentioned for Freemind, Freeplane (a fork of Freemind) has tons of export options.
Export > Branch as HTML (Ctrl-H)
Export > As PNG...

It's not "Copy" and it creates a separate file, but it should get you a pretty map in Word.

Also, like Freemind, Freeplane will copy/paste a nested bulleted list into Word.

March 6, 2012 at 16:13 |

jFenter

Sorry everyone, I was overlooking the "export" feature-I was attempting to "save as" and only getting one file type. Problem solved, TK

March 6, 2012 at 22:22 |

I use Mind Manager and save as either a PDF or jpg depending on what I want to use the output for. PDF format is pretty useful if I want to share it with someone who doesn't have the software.

March 6, 2012 at 23:36 |

Alison Reeves