Product Description

Teach yourself how to diagram business and technical information using Visio 2003—one step at a time! Build exactly the skills you need by working at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on exercises. Topics include formatting and connecting shapes; creating project schedules, network diagrams, and organization charts; laying out office space; and customizing shapes and templates. You get all the book’s practice files on CD, along with the Microsoft Office System Reference pack, featuring templates, clip art, an electronic version of STEP BY STEP, plus three other eBooks: Microsoft Office System Quick Reference; Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition; and Introducing the Tablet PC. Designed for beginning-level and intermediate-level users, STEP BY STEP puts you in charge of developing exactly the skills you need, just when you need them!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #328624 in Books
• Brand: Microsoft
• Published on: 2004-09-01
• Platform: No Operating System
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.50 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780735621251
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Good tutorial for non-database functionality
This is a well-written and easily understood intro to Visio, which does a good job of covering diagrams, flowcharts, Gantt charts, floorplans, and the like. But, it has absolutely no information on building database diagrams with Visio, for which I deducted a star.

Just what the title says.
Well organized and easy to study. Suits multiple learning styles. The CD has some excellent additional information.

Yet another fairly useless manual
This book "Microsoft Office Visio Step by Step" is yet another example of an almost useless manual, that barely duplicates what is available in the online manual for Visio.

It basically consits of screen shots and procedures.

It doesn't sit back and say "well, what might a user want to do here? Oh, you want to create a circle with center and radius? Then look for such and such a shape in such and such a stencil." Etc.

Because it lacks this "meta-contemplation", this manual is only as good as the programmers - it is basically like talking to the programmers, in their mindset. (I'm a programmer: this is NOT good). If what you need to draw is exactly covered by Visio, this manual may help you. If what you need to draw is not exactly covered by one of Visio's pre-packaged setups, this manual is not much help.

I work in an intensely graphical field - VLSI design. But Visio has no pre-packaged setup for my area --- the "electrical engineering" and "digital design" stencils and templates are not very useful. (This opinion confirmed by surveying my fellow engineers at Intel and AMD - all of us want to use Visio, but all find Visio sorely lacking.)

This manual is utterly useless with respect to advanced Visio, e.g. using ShapeSheets to create "smart" shapes.

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Because I have mentioned my employers' names, past and present, I must add this disclaimer: this review is my own personal opinion, not the official position of Intel and AMD.

Although I daresay many engineers at Intel and AMD agree with these sentiments, it may be hard to put this on the record.