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Microsoft Visio 2010 Step by Step--The smart way to learn Microsoft Visio 2010--one step at a time

Sebastopol, CA—Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to create professional business and technical diagrams with Visio 2010. With Microsoft® Visio® 2010 Step by Step (Microsoft Press, $29.99 USD), you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them.

"Visio 2010 is the coolest and most robust release of Visio in the last 10 years," says Visio MVP and author Scott Helmers. "There is more that is new, exciting and possible with Visio 2010 than most long-time Visio users realize."

Helmers adds, "Visio 2010 is easier to use than ever before, in part because this is the first release to implement the Microsoft Office ribbon user interface (UI). Visio is, after all, a visual product, and the ribbon UI is all about visual presentation of related functions that help you achieve your goals."

With Microsoft® Visio® 2010 Step by Step, you will:

• Learn how to navigate the new user interface—the Ribbon and Backstage view—in Visio 2010
• Build network diagrams, organization charts, office spaces, floor plans, and other diagrams
• Connect and align shapes in process diagrams, and create effective flowcharts and workflow diagrams
• Link Visio diagrams to a data source to visualize the diagram's data, and analyze business data in PivotDiagrams
• Insert and modify diagrams in Microsoft® Office documents, and collaborate on diagrams in Microsoft SharePoint® 2010
• Create your own shapes and templates and build custom diagrams

Your online learning resources include:

• Practice exercises
• Diagram samples
• Unlimited access to a fully searchable online edition of the book on the Web