Comments on: Visio 2010 Live Preview – Formatting & Themes

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:04:29 +0000

What about the compatability with AutoCAD? As of right now you have to save a drawing in CAD back to R14 to get it to insert into Visio(And we are now into AutoCAD 2010, nine or so version ahead).

Is Visio 2010 going to make it any easier to make your own stencils? i.e. text scaling with the drawing with out having to do the paste special trick.

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:30:43 +0000

Hi Stacia,

Well, I don’t think you can compare a drawing program with applications that are relatively flat/simple like Excel and Word.

There is a lot more going on with a graphics app – the worlds that can be built in Visio are a lot more wide-open and varied than what you can do with Excel or Word. I’ve worked with it a long time and have seen the complicated innards of graphics solutions.

I’m not even sure that the ribbon is really the best thing for a graphics app. The way you work just isn’t the same as with Word or Excel.

While you are complaining about backgrounds, what would you like to see? How about some concrete examples? You never know who might be reading this blog – perhaps someone who can have an influence.

I do know that there are enhancements to backgrounds in Visio 2010, but I haven’t investigated them fully yet. Stay tuned!

By: Stacia

Stacia — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:15:16 +0000

What makes this so amazing? Visio 2010 will finally include all the functionality available in the rest of the MS Office suite. It’s about time.

What about actual improvements to Visio-specific functionality? Like backgrounds?

By: Wombat

Wombat — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:53:36 +0000

People:
Trouble, oh we got trouble,
Right here in River City!
With a capital “T”
That rhymes with “P”
And that stands for Preview!