VISIO 2000: The Official Guide

by John V. Hedtke and Elisabeth Knottingham

Visio is a tool for creating structured drawings such as flow charts, labeled diagrams, and site maps, and is the market leader in the business graphics product category. This is the official guide to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072120754
• ISBN13: 9780072120752
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great book for Visio beginners

This book is an excellent guide to Visio 2000 for the complete beginner, as well as a useful reference for those who have used earlier versions of Visio. Unlike most books of this type, "Visio 2000: The Official Guide" is not a simple typesetting of the program's online help system. In fact, I found the book considerably more informative than the online help, not to mention easier to navigate. Knottingham and Hedtke guide the reader through all of the commonly-used features of Visio (and a few less frequently accessed features, like creating shapes from scratch and importing databases), providing simple, easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, which should serve to make Visio 2000 understandable even to computer novices. I've used earlier versions of Visio on an infrequent basis, and this book helped refresh my memory about how things are done in Visio, as well as providing an excellent head start into learning the new features in Visio 2000. The illustrations in "Visio 2000: The Official Guide" are extremely helpful, particularly in describing a program that is as visually-oriented as Visio. I've read a number of 3rd-party computer books whose illustrations are merely page filler, but that's not the case with this book. The entire book is attractive and laid out well, letting the reader find specific information quickly and easily. The authors explain Visio 2000 features without a lot of excess and confusing verbage. Though it may annoy some more experienced computer users to have every single little click outlined in each series of instructions, it means that readers can find answers to specific problems without having to wade through entire chapters to find what they're looking for; simply turn to the index, go to the right page, and all the steps are clearly outlined, no matter where they occur in the book. Likewise, the book does an excellent job of describing Visio-specific concepts and terms. Overall, this book is an invaluable companion to Visio 2000.