Learn to Diagram with Visio 2000 (Paperback)

by Ralph Grabowski (Author)

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Product Description
For Users of: Visio 2000 Standard Edition, Visio 2000 Technical Edition, Visio 2000 Professional Edition, and Visio 2000 Enterprise Edition

Learn to Diagram with Visio 2000 teaches you how to quickly create a variety of diagrams using this essential office software. Best-selling author Ralph Grabowski uses a tutorial approach to demonstrate how to draw diagrams such as maps, calendars, flowcharts, and business forms. The first chapter presents the fundamentals of Visio 2000, while the remaining chapters focus on specific types of Visio diagrams.

Basic and advanced tutorials in each diagramming chapter illustrate the drawing process. Each chapter concludes with a quiz to test your knowledge, and exercises to help you put your new skills to work. The appendixes contain a listing of mouse and keyboard shortcuts, and tips to improve your productivity with Visio 2000. All of the files used in the tutorials are included on the companion CD-ROM.

About the Author
Ralph Grabowski is the author of more than 50 books about CAD and graphics, including the Learn Visio and Learn AutoCAD LT series for Wordware Publishing. He is also the editor of several publications including Visions.eZine e-newsletter for Visio users. He can be reached via e-mail at [e-mail].

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Wordware Publishing (October 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556227094
• ISBN-13: 978-1556227097
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #378,916 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ten Great Lessons, February 26, 2001

By	Citizen John (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the money, August 23, 2001

By	"dunkrog" (Walnut Creek, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A quite complete primer., May 22, 2001

By	Harland J Hirst Jr (Anchorage, Alaska USA) - See all my reviews

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.