Why? God, why?

Here’s a summary of group commands:

Group………..Ctrl + G
Ungroup……..Ctrl + Shift + U
Open Group…Right-click > Group > Open shapename
Open Group…Context-menu key (if you have one!), G, O

The Developer Tab in Visio 2010 also has a Shape Design group with some Group-related commands, but open group is oddly missing from the drop-down list!

I wish the article would have mentioned the location of the “Open Group” under 2010. I finally found 1 place where I can get it, but surely it must also reside elsewhere as well.

Right-Click on the Group->Group->Open Group

Again… 3 Clicks instead of 2 (that’s if we didn’t add it up to one of the toolbars in previous version)

I find that these new Ribbons are great when you’re starting to learn a program. But if you knew most of the commands for that program and took the habbit of customizing your toolbars (which was a heck of a lot simpler before!), then these Ribbons are just extremely frustrating! Just about every single command you do, takes 1-2 steps more… multiply that by possibly hundreds of commands when working on a decent size project… at that sure adds up quickly! Bit if MS tells us it increases our productivity… it must be true.

I’ll give MS this though… as far as the UI within the drawing area is concerned… Visio 2010 has some nice new features (Shape Alignments and Distributions visual cues are pretty cool!).