Category Archives: Visio

I finally got a real copy of Visio 2010 Step by Step by fellow Visio MVP Scott Helmers. It looks far nicer than the copy I edited. I really had to get nitpicky to comment on the book. Other than not putting “u” in “colour”, he is a good writer and there was a goodContinue reading “Visio 2010 SBS”

I see that SmartDraw is still not being honest when they compare themselves to Visio. Visio was the innovator in business graphics alomst twenty years ago. There is always a competitor who wants to grow their business by comparing themselves to the innovator. CorelFlow did that for awhile. So what is wrong with the comparison?Continue reading “Pretender to the Throne”

With Visio 2010, Visio has now joined the other core Office apps and now supports the ribbon. The ribbon on displays what is relavent for the task at hand. With the old menus, I ended up turning almost all of them on and wasting screen real estate. So in a way, I like the newContinue reading “The Ribbon is cute, but where is…”