Learn to Diagram with Visio 2000

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Summary: A quite complete primer.
Review: A wonderful introduction on using Visio 2000. It is very broad and covers the essentials needed to begin. I started creating my own electrical wiring diagrams within three or four hours of study. I of course wanted "Harland's Guide to Creating WDG's with Visio," and this wasn't it, but I am pleased.

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Summary: Not worth the money
Review: No depth to this. Covers several areas such as flowcharts, calendars, office layout, etc. But none to any level of detail that you could be proficient at it. It doesn't even cover some of the pretty basic functions like using styles, or align/distribute shapes--things I think any beginner should learn about. I'd say you're better muddling through Visio's questionable help text than spending money on this.

Rating:
Summary: Not worth the money
Review: No depth to this. Covers several areas such as flowcharts, calendars, office layout, etc. But none to any level of detail that you could be proficient at it. It doesn't even cover some of the pretty basic functions like using styles, or align/distribute shapes--things I think any beginner should learn about. I'd say you're better muddling through Visio's questionable help text than spending money on this.

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Summary: Ten Great Lessons
Review: This book is organized by ten lessons that cover all the things the software is capable of doing - flowcharts, organization charts, network diagrams, Ghantt charts, etc.. Ten chapters, each with a ten question quiz. That makes it different from the other Grabowski books. You learn by doing. And it comes with an excellent CD that has the 18 tutorials and files from the ten chapters. I found this approach worked better than the other books that I've seen. This book also has a large font, plenty of white space, and loads of graphics that are well placed and large enough to see - another difference from some of the other books available. Grabowski's book and CD makes this software easy to learn. If you do the lessons, which will not take much time at all, you can confidently say that you "know" Viseo.

Rating:
Summary: Ten Great Lessons
Review: This book is organized by ten lessons that cover all the things the software is capable of doing - flowcharts, organization charts, network diagrams, Ghantt charts, etc.. Ten chapters, each with a ten question quiz. That makes it different from the other Grabowski books. You learn by doing. And it comes with an excellent CD that has the 18 tutorials and files from the ten chapters. I found this approach worked better than the other books that I've seen. This book also has a large font, plenty of white space, and loads of graphics that are well placed and large enough to see - another difference from some of the other books available. Grabowski's book and CD makes this software easy to learn. If you do the lessons, which will not take much time at all, you can confidently say that you "know" Viseo.

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Summary: Good tutorial; wish it had more depth.
Review: This book provides a series of step-by-step lessons on how to use Visio 2000. It's not intended to be a technical manual, but rather a hands-on guide to the program. I wish it had a little more meat to it (perhaps two examples instead of the one), but it's an OK buy.

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Summary: Good tutorial; wish it had more depth.
Review: This book provides a series of step-by-step lessons on how to use Visio 2000. It's not intended to be a technical manual, but rather a hands-on guide to the program. I wish it had a little more meat to it (perhaps two examples instead of the one), but it's an OK buy.