Visualizing Information with Microsoft(r) Office Visio(r) 2007: Smart Diagrams for Business Users

by David J. Parker

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Create and distribute data-connected Microsoft Office Visio diagrams and reports

Get full details on the powerful features of Microsoft Office Visio 2007 inside this comprehensive volume. Written...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 007148261X
• ISBN13: 9780071482615
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Helpful for people with VBA experiece, not so much for others

This book is great if you have previous programming experience. For someone with none, the sample scripts are hard to understand as there is no explanation for functions, variables, syntaxes, etc. Wish the book title or description clearly stated "Smart Diagrams for VBA-savvy Business Users" . Or the author would provide more insight into how the scripts work, so that your average business user can apply the examples to their own needs.

Great Book for Visio Developers and Power Users

I have been using Visio and programming solutions based on Visio since 1992. I loved David Parker's book, found it easy and entertaining to read, and use it frequently as a reference. Whether you are a developer creating a Visio-based solution, or are a competent Visio user, this excellent offering will help you push Visio 2007 to new limits! Visualizing Information with Microsoft Office Visio 2007 is not for novice users, but if you are comfortable using Visio and have no trouble browsing to data stored in Microsoft Excel or your company's databases, then you will benefit from reading this book. If you are a developer looking to create a graphical application based on Visio, well, this is a no-brainer purchase: Just get it! While much of the book contains code samples in Visual Basic, there is still a wealth of information for power users that don't want to delve into code. You will get a lot of information about how to use and create solutions using the new data graphics and data linking features of Visio 2007, which don't require coding, but can be extended to wonderful new heights with the addition of a bit of automation. For years, Visio aficionados and developers have praised the virtues of Graham Wideman's Visio 2003 Developer's Survival Pack. As time marches on, and it becomes uncertain as to whether an update to the `Pack is forthcoming, we are fortunate that David Parker has stepped forward and produced a worthy successor to Wideman's masterpiece. I also found this book to be a great preparation for the Microsoft certification exam 70-545 (TS: Microsoft Office Visio 2007, Application Development)

Real World Examples

With a product that has the depth of Visio for data visualization, it's a tough target to create a document that has the breadth of that which David attempted with this book. Most of the material currently being developed, and published on-line, use languages such as C# or C++ which are (IMHO) out of sync with the community that works with Visio on a day to day basis. Since VBA support is native to the product the user doesn't require additional products to test the concepts that David covers. David has provided many examples of how to use Visio for visualization of real world business projects. As an added bonus the ability to download each of the chapters code and documents allows the user to apply them on their own systems and then port them into solutions they may wish to develop. His style is readable and approachable and the examples work 'out-of-the-box'. It's a worthy companion to David Edson's and Graham Widemans works on Visio development. Al Edlund Executive Consultant Altus Technologies

Easy to read, lots of good info

I enjoyed the author's casual conversational tone through much of the book. It had a lot of good info, some of which was valuable if you were sitting at a keyboard and followed along step-by-step. The author provides a download site for the code within the book, which is a nice alternative to those book CDs that always end up lost. As a reference, the text wasn't perfect. I think it was really designed to be read rather than thumbed through.