Flowchart Program Which Can Be Inserted Into Word

[Realitycrash]

Word and Open-Office "drawer" is causing me to regret living. The frustration is too much. I need a much simpler program (or a god-damn help-guide) to make a few very simple things: Squares which I can write in (and which allow me to write everywhere in them, not just in the center), Squares which I can place AROUND same squares without them covering the text in the first square, and a simple function to make arrows with.
Now, I am sure that this is all POSSIBLE in Word, but right now I'd rather work with something - anything - else.

 

[DoPo]

Why does have to be in MS Word? Why don't you generate the desired diagram and then insert it in the document? Paint should be able to generate those for you, I'm pretty sure. Well, I can't remember if it had arrows, if not, that might be a bit annoying, but other than that it does exactly what you need. Alternatively, I'm sure there are a bunch of free tools for various types of charts generation, including flowcharts.

I've used Dia and Visual Paradigm before - both, admittedly, for UML but I'd be surprised if they can't do flowcharts or even what you need. They both can be used for free[footnote]the former completely, the latter had a trial version which was perfectly usable for the period, which was about a month[/footnote] and worked fairly well. Other diagram software I remember I've used are these
- BOUML - I think it was advertised as simple and functional, and I think it sort of was, but I also remember I didched it for some reason. I think something was really, really annoying to do or some simple, yet needed, function was just impossible. Maybe it works better now or it might help you, I dunno - you can give it a try.
- Umbrello - I'm pretty sure it's on Linux only. Specifically, it's a KDE tool, in fact. I did use it in Gnome (it dragged in A LOT of dependancies) and it worked fairly well, aside from a few bugs but I'm fairly sure those were because it wasn't running on KDE. But overall it was really easy to use.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

yEd [http://www.yworks.com/en/products/yfiles/yed/] might be worth looking at. It's not particularly extensive, but it looks like it can do all the things you want. Here's a quick thing I made with it:



Points to note:
[ul]
[li]Colurs can be more than yellow, I just couldn't be bothered changing them.[/li]
[li]Positioning the text inside the square is a bit restrictive; you can position it in the centre or by the edges. There may be a way of getting it to position anywhere, but I don't know how.[/li]
[li]Arrows will move as you move the squares.[/li]
[li]Arrows always seem to go over nodes, even if the nodes they connect to are lower than the nodes they're going through.[/li]
[/ul]

I would try to offer more help, but most of my graphing stuff is done in [i]TiKZ[/i] nowadays, which is probably not worth learning for this one task.