Visio® 2000 Bible

Book Description

This authoritative, comprehensive guide is your bible to Visio® 2000. Written for people at all levels of technological know-how, it may be used as a reference book or a tutorial. You'll appreciate the step-by-step instructions and clear explanations enhanced by icons, charts, and hundreds of screenshots. The tips, insights, and shortcuts that appear in each chapter will help you to:

Take charge of your layout with views, grids, and guidelines.
Use Visio stencils to create flowcharts, maps, schedules, and more.
Find the fastest ways to position, connect, format, and align shapes.
Manipulate and customize shape behavior, properties, and groups.
Make the most of Visio macros and database interactivity.
Add text to your drawings, or embed drawings into Microsoft Office files.
Handle advanced tasks, from working with AutoCAD to Web design.

Whether you're an IT analyst or an advertising consultant, you'll find the tools and techniques to create business diagrams, drawings, charts, and more. You'll see why the entire Bible series carries such an outstanding reputation when the Visio 2000 Bible goes the distance for you.

Customer Reviews:

The Checklist Syndrome.......2003-04-17

The job of the technical writer is to make life easier for the technical
reader. We get paid big bucks to express complicated concepts in the simplest
possible way. It's not an easy job, but what's the fun in an easy job?

Unfortunately, many writers of technical content have other priorities. If
their work is "comprehensive", if it describes all the things it's supposed to
describe, they feel they've done their job. Never mind if the result is a
confusing assemblage of seemingly random facts, hard to follow and hard to
place in context.

Mark Walker is a poster child for this syndrome. It's pretty obvious how he
wrote Visio 2000 Bible. He made a comprehensive list of Visio features and
wrote about them one by one. Every feature, regardless of importance, gets much
the same treatment. Only a few cross references show how related features work
together. Little effort is made to describe the features clearly or concisely.

Here's an example. "There are two ways to activate and set snap and glue.
First, you can use the Snap and Glue Toolbar buttons (as shown in Figure 10-8),
or you can select Tools -> Snap & Glue to adjust settings in the Snap & Glue
dialog box. The Snap & Glue Toolbar button and dialog box are interrelated, so
a change in one also is recorded in the other. The following exercise
demonstrates the relationship...:" Then there's a lengthy demonstration of how
toolbar and dialog work. Then there's a mini-essay on when you'd use the
toolbar and when you'd use the dialog. And *then*, there's a vague, confusing
description of what the toolbar and dialog box are *for*. The whole discussion
uses up a couple of pages, but boils down to four simple statements: (1)
there's a bunch of Visio options relating to the Snap feature or the Glue
feature; (2) Two of these options enable or disable the two features; (3) the
rest of the options control the way the two features work; (4) you can set
these options one at a time (with the Snap & Glue toolbar) or all at once (with
the Snap & Glue dialog).

The reader can be excused for asking, "Jeesh, why didn't he just *say* that?"
Well, boiling complicated details down to simple descriptions is hard work. I
sometimes have to attack a concept six different ways before I'm able to
describe it in a few brief sentences. Good technical prose can be pretty
exhausting to write. It also tends to be discouraged by bosses and publishers,
who too often judge writers by the quantity of their output, not its quality.

Still, a good writer can deal with these issues. You help people understand why
fewer words often means better content. You balance work quality against
personal limitations and unavoidable deadlines. It's not easy to do all this
and still make a decent living. That's especially true if you're working
independently. But is that an excuse for short-changing your readers?

Informative.......2001-07-09

This is a good book. It goes into detail in several areas. My main concern when looking for a book was to exploit the relationship between Visio and other Office applications like Access and Excel. I was also interested in the Wizards that come with Visio. This book was helpful to me in those areas. Since the last half of this book covers these advanced features I would say that its content takes the reader from elementary topics to the more advanced features of Visio. The next step after reading this book is the developers edition from Microsoft.

This book goes into detail that new users will be interested in as well. It explains the temples and shapes, how to edit them, how to set the properties for the page and other miscellaneous topics you need to get started. If you want to make a visual representation of some data that interacts with a spreadsheet or database, you can use this book for guidance and creative insite.

This book is intended for experienced users only!.......2001-02-24

Thats right, if you are a beginer, then I would try something else. I bought this book thinking that being a "Bible" it would be perfect for me. As a Programmer I thought it would be easy to understand. This book is toooooo brief. It doesnt explain the funtionality of any of the stencils. It tells you only how to open them. I am going to have to return it. I bought this to develop a website map. The directions are soooo poor. I could not get the job done with this book. I strongly suggest getting something else. When I discover it, I will post another message. Good Luck, and sorry for negetive review, but Im just trying to save you the hassle. RGDS SS @ NYC

Recommended Reading.......2000-06-12

I enjoyed reading Visio 2000 Bible. I thought it was an extremely comprehensive book and I would highly recommend it for the beginner as well as the experienced user. Anyone using Visio 2000 would be well served in having this book as a source of reference.

Visio 2000 Bible.......2000-06-04

The Visio 2000 Bible was well written, is evident that lots of research has gone into this project. I have used Mr. Walker'S books as resource materials in the past and the quality of this book rates with the others I have read.

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AutoCAD 2002 Bible
Programmers beware
Good for intermediate/advanced AutoCAD users
Excellent, detailed coverage
Very complete book...

AutoCAD 2002 Bible (With CD-ROM)
Ellen Finkelstein
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0764536117

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The AutoCAD 2002 Bible will show you how to master the complexities of the world's most popular technical drawing program. This book covers everything you will ever need to know about AutoCAD, from fundamental commands to AutoLISP programming. You will also learn new techniques for creating high-quality 2D drawings, discover enhanced capabilities for 3D rendering, modeling, and shading. And you can customize AutoCAD to fit the way they work.

The AutoCAD 2002 Bible covers product enhancements first introduced with the AutoCAD 2000i interim software, including internet-driven design capabilities. Find out how you can now publish to the Web and collaborate with designers and customers on line. Also included is a loaded CD-ROM with more than 160 source and final drawings used in the examples and tutorials used throughout the book. In addition, you get more than 40 shareware and freeware programs, extensive parts and symbols libraries, and a complete third-party software reference guide.

Customer Reviews:

AutoCAD 2002 Bible.......2006-07-04

This book is more geared towards mechanical drafting rather than architectural drafting. But nonetheless it's a good book for referential purposes.

Programmers beware.......2003-05-07

This books is better than the autodesk manual for showing you how to draw with AutoCAD and some of the drawing features. If you are looking for a book that explores how to customize AutoCAD using LISP, VBA or ObjectARX look elsewhere.

Good for intermediate/advanced AutoCAD users.......2002-03-27

This is a great book and has come in handy now that I know AutoCAD but it was a little too difficult for me to start with. My teacher showed me a much easier book "Exercise Workbook for Beginning AutoCAD 2002" by Shrock Publishing. You can review it on their website. It made learning AutoCAD very simple. Also, why are these books so expensive. ...

Excellent, detailed coverage.......2002-02-15

This is an excellent book. It's a well-written exposition of many (perhaps all) features of AutoCAD 2002.

If you already use AutoCAD and are looking for a reference in which to look up advanced features as the need arises, this book would be an excellent choice.

If you're new to AutoCAD and are learning from scratch, this book might be an excellent choice. It contains about 300 clearly described sequential excercies which walk you through many (perhaps all) features of AutoCAD 2002. After you finish, you'll be a proficient user. But expect to invest a substantial amount of time (perhaps 3 weeks full-time).

If you're learning from scratch and just want to invest a couple of days to learn the basic features and then jump in, you might want to look for a shorter book. The first 5 chapters purports to do this, but it doesn't do it well in my judgment.

Very complete book..........2002-02-09

I mostly use this book as a reference. Every time I have searched for a particular command or topic I have found it; and clearly explained. I highly recommend it either as a reference book or as a step by step guide to thoroughly learn AutoCad 2002.

The Illustrator's Bible: The Complete Sourcebook of Tips, Tricks and Time-Saving Techniques in Oil, Alkyd, Acrylic, Gouache, Casein, Watercolor, Dyes, ... Pastel, Colored Pencil and Mixed Media

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old and crappy
Adequate for non-users of listed materials:
Good information
Very Good Book, excellente for artists
True to it's title

The Illustrator's Bible: The Complete Sourcebook of Tips, Tricks and Time-Saving Techniques in Oil, Alkyd, Acrylic, Gouache, Casein, Watercolor, Dyes, ... Pastel, Colored Pencil and Mixed Media
Rob Howard
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old and crappy.......2006-07-03

This book is a bit outdated now.
The author of this book currently has a brand of his own paints and materials. He's so caught up on materials and your hands, that he doesnt teach to use your brain or eyes. He's one of those types that's obsessed with finding out the "secret" Maroger medium, the ratio of oil:pigment in old masters paintings, etc.
I dont know how anyone can think that using Raphaels' paints will make you paint like Raphael. It's like putting on Jerome Bettis' football pads and thinking you'll weigh 265 and run faster than a cheetah. It's not going to happen.

He's also big on slavishly copying photographs. I guess that's how a lot of illustrators think, though.

Compare this to books by the golden age illustrators; like Loomis, Rockwell, Leyendecker. . . even guys like Hogarth. They focus little on materials and "techniques," and teach more about learning to think and see.

In the end, you have to realize that Michelangelo could have painted the Sistine ceiling with a mop and a bucket of mud, and it would have been just as well done. Learn the basics of materials (which you can just find online), and find someone who will teach you to think.

Adequate for non-users of listed materials:.......2006-03-16

I was primarly interested in the book for teaching students the finer points of using Gouache in Illustration. Although, there was nothing particularly new in the text about the material, it was all new to my students who found the material helpful.

Good information.......2006-03-15

This is a good book with a lot of tips , but I belive that works good for beginners. Essential for beginners! But for advanced ilustrators a good book to fix some tips.

Very Good Book, excellente for artists.......2006-02-21

the knowledge and in-depth shared in this book is excellent, helps you to go further in the techs, and with tips and trick for the materials and equipment.The only "but" that i find is that it's not a step by step teaching for beginners. Excellente book!!!

True to it's title.......2004-01-21

So many self education books for artists claim to be definitive, comprehensive, or the only book you'll ever need. I don't know if this is the only book you'll need, but it is a cheaper alternative to paying tuition at an art college. And, unlike many how-to books (and some art colleges), Rob Howard gives very specific and detailed instructions. He's light on the motivational inspiration and heavy on technique. Afterall, a working illustrator (the book's target) doesn't need to get in touch with the inner artist, but rather needs tools to get the inner art out onto the client's desk.

Additionally, Rob Howard is quite talented. Often times people with Howard's gifts are so busy with paying customers that they don't have time to put together such a quality book. Every illustration is professional quality and an inspiration in itself!
The book is packed with photos and illustrations. He lists by name and sometimes manufacturer exactly what materials you need. Covers topics from Prismacolor pencils on Denril to Friskets and masking to pastels, acrylics and airbrushing....etc.

Book Description

Packed with practical, real-world examples and authoritative advice, the AutoCAD 2000 Bible is your complete guide to the fastest, smoothest AutoCAD yet. Expert author Ellen Finkelstein shows you how to master every aspect of this powerful design software, from fundamental commands and VBA programming to hot new features such as Visual LISP, improved 3D editing, multiple plots/prints, better text handling, and more flexible dimensions.

Customer Reviews:

AutoCAD 2000 Bible.......2001-08-21

Having purchased AutoCAD for Dummies 2000, and AutoCAD for Architecture 14, this book makes you roll up your sleeves and start working productively from the second chapter. It's written for both the beginner and intermediate AutoCAD user. The CD has various small excercises to complete and provides the user with a wealth of time-saving steps. For anyone using AutoCAD 2000, whether you are a student or professional, this book is excellent. It has saved me literally hours of frustration. The book addresses both architectural and mechanical/electrical diciplines. The plotting chapter is exhaustive, and anyone using AutoCAD knows how important the proper procedures are for final output. Highly recommend this book.

Great Book.......2000-08-22

This is a great Reference book. It is verry straight forward. Verry indepth. The chapters on 3d modeling are extremly helpful.

Not for Beginners.......2000-08-07

I have used this book to teach a basic Cad class. It is helpful for use of reference only, but for a beginner, it can be overwhelming

Excellent.......2000-06-09

This is a very good book, I am exceptionally pleased about this purchase.

AutoCAD 2000 Bible.......2000-04-15

Very useful organization on 3 levels. There is a nariative to explain the general topic followed by some screen shots or description of the options. The third level is a step by step use. This worked well for me since I look for info on a topic rather than read a whole chapter. I also look for a good index to find what I need and this book had a complete index.

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AutoCAD 2004 Bible
Excellent & Worthwhile
Best book of autocad I ever read.
Yea - it's worth it
Excellent AutoCAD Book - Something for everyone.

AutoCAD 2004 Bible
Ellen Finkelstein
Manufacturer: Wiley
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* Includes new features, such as more than eighty productivity tools, new printing enhancements, easier management of external reference drawings, and much more.
* No experience is required; the first part guides novice users through the AutoCAD interface, yet the book is so complete that even veteran AutoCAD users will want to keep it by their PCs.
* The CD-ROM includes beginning and finished exercise drawings from the book, a trial version of AutoCAD, bonus appendices, freeware and shareware programs, a links page, more.

Customer Reviews:

AutoCAD 2004 Bible.......2005-09-11

I bought this to get refreshed in Autocad for a new job and would recommend it to anyone. I can't do without it.

Excellent & Worthwhile.......2004-09-28

A marvellous and first class, well written and referenced, extremely clear and as if having an AutoCAD instructer sitting next to you. I was a new user to this product and I feel today very comfortable to do my tasks on AutoCAD and feel that this book will be a good guide even for advanced users. Thanks to Ellen Finklestien and I laud your efforts and higly recomment the book to all.

Best book of autocad I ever read........2004-07-13

I have read various book of autocad, but they all seem very complicated and dificuolt to understand. I found this bible and let me tell you that is the best book I have ever seem. I recomended to a friend of mine who wants to learn autocad. This book will challenge you as a beguiner, intermedite or advance user. It has lots of examples and this author know what she is talking about. Believe me this one of the best if not the best autocad book I have seem in the market in my 10 years of autocard experience.

Yea - it's worth it.......2004-05-24

I have hundreds of books and manuals on various techie subjects and Ellen's AutoCAD 2004 Bible ranks high on my list for books worth the purchase. I have used AutoCAD for years but after moving up to Acad 2005 from Acad 2000 I thought I could use some tutoring. The book didn't disappoint. For nearly every topic there is a step by step, hands-on, example that the reader can perform. There are around 160 drawing files on the accompanying CD; one for each example in the book. You can open that file in Acad and follow the steps in the book and experiment to your heart's content.

All in all, this book won't disappont you like some I could mention.

Excellent AutoCAD Book - Something for everyone........2003-11-14

I have had R14, 2000 AutoCAD Bibles on my shelf for many years now. I picked the 2004 Bible to use as a textbook in an advanced AutoCAD class that I teach 6 or so times a year.

I was very pleased with how well it meshed with the way I have always taught this class (13 years last month.) Plus it is a nice "value added" item that the students can take back to work. My first class was very pleased about getting to use the 2004 Bible while in class and also about having a reference to study after the class.

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What is the status of visual evidence in history? Can we actually see the past through images? Where are the traces of previous lives deposited? Michael Camille addresses these important questions in Mirror in Parchment, a lively, searching study of one medieval manuscript, its patron, producers, and historical progeny.

The richly illuminated Luttrell Psalter was created for the English nobleman Sir Geoffrey Luttrell (1276-1345). Inexpensive mechanical illustration has since disseminated the book's images to a much wider audience; hence the Psalter's representations of manorial life have come to profoundly shape our modern idea of what medieval English people, high and low, looked like at work and at play. Alongside such supposedly truthful representations, the Psalter presents myriad images of fantastic monsters and beasts. These patently false images have largely been disparaged or ignored by modern historians and art historians alike, for they challenge the credibility of those pictures in the Luttrell Psalter that we wish to see as real.

In the conviction that medieval images were not generally intended to reflect daily life but rather to shape a new reality, Michael Camille analyzes the Psalter's famous pictures as representations of the world, imagined and real, of its original patron. Addressed are late medieval chivalric ideals, physical sites of power, and the boundaries of Sir Geoffrey's imagined community, wherein agricultural laborers and fabulous monsters play a similar ideological role. The Luttrell Psalter thus emerges as a complex social document of the world as its patron hoped and feared it might be.

Customer Reviews:

Camille, fantastic art history writer.......2003-07-08

Camille is one of the best new art history writers I have encountered lately. I relish everything he writes! He's not afraid to pull out all the descriptive language and criticize what has been said up to now. Excelent work!!

A Wonderful Tale of Merry Olde England.......1999-01-27

Who would have thought illuminated manuscripts could be so fascinating? Camille guides us along their margins, pointing out ghouls and grotesques and creatures of medieval fancy that are at once amazing and obscene. In his story of the making of Britain's cherished Luttrell Psalter, he reveals an England rife with political strife and intrigue as it shaped itself into a young, unified nation. A beautiful book with brilliant illustrations.

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a collection of generalized art medium info, much overpriced.

The Drawing Bible
Craig Nelson
Manufacturer: North Light Books
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The Drawing Bible is the definitive resource artists need in order to master this important medium. As a complete drawing course, it teaches both how to draw and how to use drawing materials. Award-winning artist Craig Nelson provides easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions that cover:

-Crucial drawing principles, from perspective and sketching to gestures and details

-A variety of subjects, including landscapes, still life, people, and buildings in both black and white and color

-Ways to experiment with mixed media, surface types, personal styles and more

In addition, this book is conveniently packaged in an enclosed spiral, making it a perfect, portable reference tool for beginning and advanced artists.

Customer Reviews:

a collection of generalized art medium info, much overpriced........2006-07-26

"Drawing Bible" by Craig Nelson, with a publication date of 24 March 2006....

The suggested retail cover price is $24.99, which is much too high for basic art information, and that is reduced by Amazon to $15.99, so the book can be had for somewhat of a "bargain" price. However, I have reviewed other books that cover the same material for less still than $15.99, and more thoroughly.

The issue here is whether or not the author is providing a beginning student of art with a book of useful information. If somone wants this BIBLE of generalized information, it is certainly a personal choice. In my experience however, looking back upon all the years that I have bought books, no beginner needs a BIBLE like this, for the simple fact that all a beginner needs to learn drawing is pencil and charcoal. In Nelson's DRAWING BIBLE, the first pages introduce colored pencils, pastel chalk, pens and inks, colored inks and other media that really is beyond the "beginner" level. Therefore, I do not see that all of the above "advanced" drawing media are useful in any practical sense.

Chapter after chapter of diffuse, generalized art info follows.

There are 11 pages on perspective, and finally, by the time you study up to pages 186, 187, 188, and 189, these four pages contain some "animated" human figures. Not much to work with really.

Following the four pages on drawing the human figure in motion, pages 205 to 219 cover drawing heads and faces.
All of the figure and head & face drawing can be had in cheaper books, and it is covered better.

If one desires a general reference book on various drawing mediums and you can afford the book, it may be something you want; but I think this book is based on the assumption that people will sit and read page after page of encyclopedic information that is of no immediate use, to be stored away in memory. In fact, most students of art will use very specific information and want lots of it on a single subject, like drawing the face & figure, or landscape drawing, or architectural drawing, and this book merely covers everything briefly, so that for every single chapter's subject, you will have to go out and buy another book to cover it thoroughly.

The Pastel Artist's Bible: An essential reference for the practicing artist (Quarto Book)

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The Pastel Artist's Bible: An essential reference for the practicing artist (Quarto Book)

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Croghan from London Ohio.......2007-07-07

I have worked in pastels on and off for over 50 years and I was looking for a book to help me catch up on the latest techniques and what materials were available. I found this book to be very concise and helpful it is well laid out and the information in it is very credible the illustrations are both colorful and well done and are good examples of what is being expressed in words. I highly recommend this for anyone starting in pastel work because it is simple and well laid out and easy to follow. I also recommend it for anyone who has worked in pastel but has not worked in it for the last few years.

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Drawing Near
Kenneth Boa , and Max Anders
Manufacturer: Nelson
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A special book to help your personally enrich two key areas of devotion. Effective prayer and knowledge of the bible. this is a 3-part course in one book. Part one is a topical arrangment of passages as they relate to prayer. Part two guides you through effective bible reading. Part 3 combines parts one and two for a 31 day pattern for bible reading and memory.

The Sketching And Drawing Bible: An Essential Reference For The Practicing Artist

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The Sketching And Drawing Bible: An Essential Reference For The Practicing Artist
Marylin Scott
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