Microsoft Visio Version 2002 Inside Out (Inside Out (Microsoft)) Review

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Microsoft Visio Version 2002 Inside Out (Inside Out (Microsoft)) ReviewAs can be expected in a book published by the software vendor, this is a sanitized overview of Visio 2002. While it teaches how to use Visio, it fails to get into any great detail of problems users might encounter -- as is the case with Visio.
For example, the chapter on translating drawings from a CAD package, such as AutoCAD, fails to mention the objects that disappear from Visio; that Visio can't handle a large converted CAD drawing (Visio slows down to a grind), etc.
The book gushes over Task Panes, but really -- Visio 2002 has just two (Open and Search) -- big deal.
Also missing from the book are features dropped from Visio 2002, such as:
- Geographic Solution
- Build Region command
- Flags stencil
- Print Shapesheet
All in all, the sort of effort you would expect from a book that might have been edited by the marketing department. In any case, why would Microsoft have to publish a _book_ on how to use Visio? Does this mean the documentation provided with the software is poor?
A fat book, but not worth buying. I found David Plotkin's "Visio 2000: Visual Insight" the best book so far, and look forward to it being updated for 2002.Microsoft Visio Version 2002 Inside Out (Inside Out (Microsoft)) Overview

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Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Inside Out Review

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Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Inside Out ReviewGood text, clear, very complete and well structured.
Shoud be even better, if developing some examples taken from real business life.
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Microsoft Office Visio 2003 Inside Out (Inside Out (Microsoft)) Review

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Microsoft Office Visio 2003 Inside Out (Inside Out (Microsoft)) ReviewThis book is what used to be called a "manual" that came "free" after you spent a few hundred dollars on software. If you are looking for a manual, this is a good choice, but if you want to learn how to use the program with this, please don't. The examples it showed were not consistent within the chapter, so you could not follow along by trying to try out the concepts after reading easily.
I'll keep the book as a reference, but I'm a bit upset about spending money for it. I'll try the "Step by Step" book, but those are generally not very in-depth.Microsoft Office Visio 2003 Inside Out (Inside Out (Microsoft)) Overview

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Using Microsoft Visio 2010 Review

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Using Microsoft Visio 2010 ReviewFull Disclosure: I am an acquaintance of the author and indeed even mentioned on page 323. Take that into account when reading this review.
My background: I have used Visio extensively for 10 years and continue use it *every day* in my work at Microsoft. My knowledge of this application is in the areas of end-user productivity, making visually-compelling diagrams, and driving the application via code (C#, IronPython, VBA, etc.).
Summary:
This book is the only resource either in print or online that I feel clearly communicates to a *normal person* how to use Visio's features and provides the that only someone who deeply uses the application can provide.
A strength of this book is that it will *save you time*. It provides in one place the hard-won knowledge that would otherwise only be available through much trial-and-error and confusion. For example consider section 6.2. This section describes how to quickly format a table of boxes. Creating a table the standard way would require much dragging and dropping of shapes and tedious formatting and re-typing. Section 6.2 shows how to use to quickly do the equivalent in much less time and in the process you'll learn things that will make you more productive with all of your other diagrams. This is just one tiny example. The book has many similar sections that describe a variety of situations you'll encounter in your day-to-day use of Visio.
What surprised me about this book is that I even though I am considered an "expert" user of Visio in Microsoft, I still found a lot to learn in the book. The author's knowledge about the application is truly deep. My work in the past few years has naturally been with Visio 2007 and so I found book was useful in discovering and understanding the new features in Visio 2010.
Printed versus Kindle version: I own both but the Kindle version is the one I use on an iPad2 and via Amazon's Kindle Cloud Reader. For me, there's no point bringing the physical book around when I always can access it electronically. Another advantage of the Kindle version is that the screenshots are in color (when viewed through a color-enabled Kindle device), while the printed version has everything in grayscale.
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