# A Venn Diagram Generator? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 24, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-venn-diagram-generator/583057 "2011-05-24T20:08:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-venn-diagram-generator/583057/1 "2011-05-24T20:08:15Z")
If there were somewhere online a site that lets you create Venn diagrams (the three-circled type) including shading in areas, placing x’s is areas, and placing either bars or x’s on lines between areas, this would be very helpful to me. Google found nothing for me though. Do you guys know of anything that might help here? Ideally I could save the diagram as a graphical file of some kind. Of course screenshotting will do this trick–just saying if something less unwieldy than a screenshot were available, that’d be a bonus. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-venn-diagram-generator/583057/2 "2011-05-24T20:17:10Z")
You can make them [pretty easily](http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/demo-create-a-venn-diagram-HA010336422.aspx) in MS Office, if you have that available. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-venn-diagram-generator/583057/3 "2011-05-24T20:34:25Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > You can make them [pretty easily](http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/demo-create-a-venn-diagram-HA010336422.aspx) in MS Office, if you have that available. Sorry, forgot to mention–I do have it but I find using graphics in MSOffice to be _really_ unwieldy. There is probably just something I don’t know about how to use them, but I don’t know how to make the graphics go where I want them to go, (seems like I have to place them just like I place text–but what if I need other text to be around them in places where text now doesn’t want to go because of the graphics?) I don’t know how to shade things in on them, etc. Maybe that video will help so thanks for that. ---
**Author:** ![J\_Cubed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@J\_Cubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J_Cubed)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-venn-diagram-generator/583057/4 "2011-05-24T20:47:07Z")
GraphJam’s [builder](http://cheezburger.com/FlashBuilder/GraphJam) might be enough for your needs. Especially if those needs include making funny graphs. ---
**Author:** ![writely311](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a3d4f5/32.png) [@writely311](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/writely311)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-venn-diagram-generator/583057/5 "2013-01-25T00:21:18Z")
I searched for [Venn diagram](https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/examples/venn_diagram_maker) maker and came across a tool called Lucid Chart. I tested it out and it seems to do everything you’re looking for (well, and a lot more). I totally know what you mean about visuals in MS Office btw! ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-venn-diagram-generator/583057/6 "2013-01-25T00:46:54Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > Sorry, forgot to mention–I do have it but I find using graphics in MSOffice to be _really_ unwieldy. There is probably just something I don’t know about how to use them, but I don’t know how to make the graphics go where I want them to go, (seems like I have to place them just like I place text–but what if I need other text to be around them in places where text now doesn’t want to go because of the graphics?) I don’t know how to shade things in on them, etc. Maybe that video will help so thanks for that. Use tables in Office to help you align text and graphics. It works really well.