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About Visio 2000 Standard Edition Upgrade
Review Our favorite all-purpose business diagramming tool, Visio, has been upgraded with a new engine and lots of seemingly small user interface improvements. Though you may notice an improved redraw speed (mostly for large drawings and especially for pan and zoom effects) and that the limit on the number of objects per diagram has been removed, what's far more important in Visio 2000 Standard Edition are the "little things" that make this a much more useful product. Let's start with the improvements to the user interface. You can use the arrow keys to nudge objects in any of four directions. Confused about what a Cause-and-Effect diagram is? Not to worry--Visio 2000 includes thumbnail views of each chart type. In addition, when you launch the program, Visio now lists the last four files you've worked on as well as the last four chart types you've created. Since it's likely you use Visio for only one or two types of charts (though it's capable of creating dozens), it's much better than navigating through all the menus. Speaking of which, the menus and toolbars have been streamlined, and you can put your favorite, most frequently used commands on a new, custom toolbar. There are page tabs (like Excel has) for moving between pages; you can use your mouse in conjunction with the tabs to add, delete, rename or reorder the pages. As another example of "small but nice" improvements, consider the way Visio handles text. If you increase the size of text within an object, you may have to change the shape's size so all the text will fit. Previously you got an outline of the shape; in Visio 2000 the text redisplays as you change a shape's size so you'll know when all the text fits. I'd still like to see an "auto size" feature, but until then, this is a good interim step. If you work with flowcharts, you'll especially like the dynamic grid. When you have the connector tool selected and drag out a new object, Visio 2000 adds a horizontal and vertical line to the new object that helps you line up the connectors as you move the object on the drawing surface. In addition, a pop-up note lets you know when the object is evenly spaced and properly aligned. You'll also find that Visio 2000 can now automatically number the elements on your flow chart, eliminating the need to type in "Step 1," "Step 2" and so on, into all the objects. Organization charts are easier in Visio 2000, thanks to a new wizard that can take a database or Excel sheet and turn it into a chart. It was easy to specify the Excel file; Visio made some smart assumptions about the data from the column headings. You need to be sure one column has the name of the person each person reports to, of course, and after that you can select which columns/fields from your input source are used in the drawing. The wizard can even work its magic using Microsoft Exchange Server data as input, though I didn't test that feature. -- From Winmag® Amazon.com Visio 2000 Standard Edition takes the worldwide standard in business diagramming tools to the next level. Using Visio 2000's seamless Microsoft integration, you can drag and drop flowcharts, organization charts and other business diagrams into PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents. Add brilliant new backgrounds, borders and color schemes, then leverage Visio 2000 Standard Edition's advanced Internet functionality to create, store and exchange drawings via your corporate intranet or the Web.
