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Title: Microsoft Visio Version 2002 Inside Out by Resources Online, Nanette Eaton, Resources Online ISBN: 0-7356-1285-4 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 25 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent introduction & basic reference for Visio users
Comment: If you are getting a book on Visio - I would recommend this one. I did and did not regret it. It is harder to obtain in the UK... but well worth the effort to get a better Visio book. This edition is very well written - one of the best technical works I have read - the writer has taken a lot of care to organize her thoughts and to communicate Visio effectively to the reader. Reading the first chapters is a good way to learn Visio fast. As a previous reviewer said, being a Micrsoft publication, it will not advertise Visio bugs (of which Visio has one or two) but then other books may not tell you enough about these either. Despite this, this book is great. It explains and introduces the use of Visio, a great product (Visio is extensive, feature-rich and just a little more confusing to get to grips with than Word or Excel).
This is a must buy book for new Visio Professional 2002 users and it is good for general reference to look things up in later on as you continue to use and explore the product.
Rating: 1
Summary: Lacking in Detail
Comment: As 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.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great for Visio end users¿
Comment: This is overall a good book, but I wanted a text that was a little meatier. If you use Visio to model or create diagrams then this book is excellent. I have picked up quite a few new habits and techniques by reading this book.
Although I liked this book, I actually wanted a book that covered the more advanced topics like creating Visio components, and using the XML that Visio can now generate in version 2002. This book doesn't really cover these advanced developer topics, nor does it claim to (I should have read the descriptions more carefully). If you are looking to extend Visio and create custom solutions with Visio, this book does little more for you than tell you that you can indeed do these things, but that information is outside the scope of the text.
Good book otherwise, I recommend this text for people that simply need to use Visio, rather than develop additional Visio components.
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Title: Microsoft Visio Version 2002 Step by Step by Resources Online ISBN: 0735613028 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 12 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Project Version 2002 Inside Out by Teresa S. Stover ISBN: 0735611246 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 14 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Learn Microsoft Visio 2002 for the Advanced User by Ralph Grabowski, Frank Zander ISBN: 1556228198 Publisher: Wordware Publishing Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Special Edition Using Microsoft Visio 2002 by Keith Powell ISBN: 078972684X Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 21 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Visio 2000 Quick Source Reference Guide by Quick Source ISBN: 1930674414 Publisher: Quick Source Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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