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(More customer reviews)I am a long time Visio user from way back. Rather than reviewing all the Visio features, I will just comment on the changes that make Visio more in sync with the latest Microsoft office suite.
Generally, I think it is best to purchase upgrades and continue to grow with the product rather than try to figure out if there are new features that are meaningful to me. In the end, a few bucks spend every so often mean that one keeps up to date and avoid unpleasant surprises later on when features and formats are entirely different. With this reasoning I purchased Visio 2010. I already had Office 2007 which introduced the new ribbon style menus and after some initial adjustment had no issues with the new way of working.
Visio 2010, however, is a different beast. The ribbon style menus are horrible. I keep trying to figure out where the most simplest functions are hidden or how they are grouped/renamed. In some cases you will need to go into configuration settings and select "developer mode" to get menus that are otherwise missing (non-developer menus btw). It is difficult to work in this package, it is very difficult to like it. It appears that no software engineer part of the development of Visio 2010 actually uses this for him/herself. After many hours working with it, I just want to smack someone on that development team! Oh well, venting mode off.
Visio 2010 is a very capable package and the ribbon menu style is probably here to stay (at least for a while) so one might better get used to it. However, if you have a previous version and are happy with it, perhaps wait till a later release to see if Microsoft improves the menus.
For total capabilities: 5 stars, for crappy menus: 1 star; average 3.
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