Thanks for the purchase, and good question.

There are no “files to download” that accompany the book, other than the bonus Chapter 11 PDF file. I never packaged up all of the sample files because A. I thought it was a good idea for readers to work through it, and B. I just didn’t have the time, especially after the extra effort to produce all of the companion videos that come with the book.

Maybe someday I’ll scrape them together and put them on this site, but I doubt I’ll have the time. A quick scan for *.vsd in my “book” directory revealed 182 items!

Cheers,

Chris

Purchased your Visio 2010 book on QUE Publishing. I like to look at it occasionally. Now I would like to go through it thoroughly.

I tried to find on QUE some accompanying files for the book. Is there such a thing? Could be useful, especially for the bonus PDF document ‘Developing Custom Visio Solutions’.

Thanks
Daniel

I’ve loved Visio since v4 onwards, and have been looking for a solid resource to help me get the most out of the product… I work in London on site for a very, very large Bank and am in the middle of a huge data & storage migration; I’m looking to increase my control over the next phase of the work and visualisation’s the key.

I’m after bringing all the pieces of information together in a coherent way so I can manage technical system details, resource management-lite (timeslot based); last and possibly most important is the requirement to publish schedule, technical, time and progress ad-hoc. I’m comfortable with Visio, but have never used MS Access before: I love a challenge and am going to give it a try to learn both and get the outcome I’m after.

Currently using a big xlsx. I’ve just sold the idea to my programme manager, but if I’m going to fail, I want to do it very quickly – then a re-think.

I’m also going to procure myself a copy of your book…

Wish me luck!

Regards,

Jonathan.

Now that I just dated myself, how do we get the new commands to line up under each other with small icons instead of 4 new commands occupying half the freakin’ ribbon?

It’s as if they put a noob on the ribbon design. I mean, seriously. Or did I just miss the “make the ribbon pretty” checkbox??

To edit the play list, just double-click on the text, then edit each item.

For the cover, just import a photo or some other artwork and place it over “CD Artwork Goes Here”.

Just save the file to your PC. Put it on the Desktop if you’d like. You will need to unzip it. The easiest way is to just double-click the file to “go inside the zip” then, copy the two files inside (“CD Jewel Case Sample.vsd” and “CD Jewel Case Template.vst”), and paste them outside the zip (like on your Desktop).

Now, if you double click the template, “CD Jewel Case Template.vst”, Visio will open an unsaved copy of that document, because it’s a template. You can edit that file as you’d like, and save it with any name you’d like. You won’t mess up the original.

To see how you might edit the file, have a look at “CD Jewel Case Sample.vsd” to see sample data in action on the jewel case.

Cheers!