Mindjet for Microsoft

Mindjet has announced, in conjunction with the Microsoft Office 2007 introduction, that it has released its Word 2007 Map Editor for Mindjet MindManager, a free add-in designed to increase the productivity of business teams.

The new Map Editor facilitates collaboration by enabling business team members who do not yet use MindManager to use Word 2007 to access and edit information captured in MindManager visual "maps." They can then send the edited Word document back to MindManager users, who will see these changes reflected in the original map.

Users can now also communicate complex information quickly by inserting into the Word document a predefined set of MindManager icons, images, priorities, resources and hierarchical structures. Further, says Mindjet, by exposing the capabilities of one application to the users of the other, the new Mindjet add-in gives users the freedom to work in the application they prefer (MindManager or Word 2007) while still having access to the unique strengths of the other application.