I had started with using MS Visio at my job.
Though I had absolutely no experience in making diagrams, Visio was quite easy to get started and become comfortable in quick time.
The downside of course is that it is not free.
I would also like to know open source alternatives to MS Visio. I can see that Ubuntu 12.04 comes with Libre Draw, but I haven't tried it yet.
Sometimes Excel when diagram could be made by drawing borders around cells and resizing rows and columns as per need. This helps when unplanned non-linear horizontal and vertical scaling is needed while making the diagram.
The SmartArt concept they introduced was quite promising, though I find the current state of it lagging. I am sad that it never picked up.
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I would also like to know open source alternatives to MS Visio. I can see that Ubuntu 12.04 comes with Libre Draw, but I haven't tried it yet.
Otherwise there is GIMP too.
+1 to all the other open source solutions mentioned here.
Sometimes Excel when diagram could be made by drawing borders around cells and resizing rows and columns as per need. This helps when unplanned non-linear horizontal and vertical scaling is needed while making the diagram.
The SmartArt concept they introduced was quite promising, though I find the current state of it lagging. I am sad that it never picked up.
You can even embed it in other things, like Wikis. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GraphViz