Microsoft Visio Standard 2007

Had major problems installing this product onto a Vista machine that already had Office2007 installed. Had to spend 2 hours with Microsoft to get it loaded. Then it wouldn't accept my old files from previous Visio. Worked with Microsoft for 6 hours on this one. It turns out that Visio 2007 does NOT follow the file naming convention for Windows Files........ Had to change the names of all my old files before it would accept.

Does what I expected. The only better thing would be a Mac version. For those Mac users, it works perfectly on my Parallels installation of XP. I found no incompatibilities or issues. I often transfer my work to and from PC users without anyone realizing that it was done on a Mac.

Installed the software on my XP laptop. Worked greated. Love the simplicity of it.

Good for drawing flowcharts for software. The standard version has the templates used for firmware. Able to export to Visio 2002. 1 month trial can be downloaded from Microsoft. Not as easy to use as Smart Draw, but Visio does not have problems staying on grid and will go full screen on large monitors, so I switched. Only program I have that wont print to Adobe Acrobat writer 5.0.

Much better than using PowerPoint to make organization charts, as we used to do. Format painter function could work better, as copying shapes and formats does not always work as desired.