Re: Uses of Visio?

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

I was using 2003. They're not bugs, the program's meant to work that way.

Could be there was a more appropriate template for generic drawings
that my company hadn't purchased.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Dan Goldstein
<DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> wrote:
> Which version of Visio are you using? I've been using Visio 2003, and I
> haven't experienced any of the four bugs you describe below.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robert Lauriston
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:46 AM
>> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>> Subject: Re: Uses of Visio?
>>
>> When I want a simple diagram (e.g. a block diagram showing
>> the relationship between and data flows among components in a
>> client-server application), typically I've found that Visio
>> won't let me simply do what I want. It won't let me draw the
>> kind of arrow I want between two boxes, it won't make labels
>> the size I want them to be, when I move one object it
>> automatically rearranges the rest inappropriately, when I
>> make any change to the drawing it resizes the page size back
>> to the default, effectively shrinking the drawing in the
>> linked OLE object in FrameMaker.
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