Visio annoyances?

[bangbang]

I'm new to Visio and keep finding a lot of little annoyances in how the
drawing tools, view commands, etc. work. Nothing really awful and
nothing that I can't work around, but I find that I constantly have to
take my hands off the keyboard or mouse to do something that feels like
it should be available from where my hands already were, or I have to
dig down in some menu or right click on something and dig deeper than I
would like, and all of this switching and digging interrupts my
workflow and slows me down. It just doesn't feel like a smooth process
to me (note that I come from a graphics background, not a CAD
background, so that may be part of it).

Is it just me? Do others find the same interruptions, or am I just not
thinking right? Maybe I haven't found the shortest, easiest way to do
things? I wonder if my brain will eventually adapt to the Visio way of
doing tihngs and these annoyances may disappear, or will I just have to
get used to the interruptions and accept them as the way thing work?

Just curious if others have had this same experience, or if I should
shut up and just get used to it. Anybody else out there find working
with Visio to be less than smooth?

Thanks,

 

[jmw]

nope.

 

[Al Edlund]

based on you comment "(note that I come from a graphics background, not a
CADbackgrounds to sometimes feel a little encumbered. What some people bring
forward is the observation that Visio is not a drawing or a CAD tool but
rather focuses on diagramming relationships. Where it can in fact do the
others to some extent, that is not it's forte....
Al

 

[Randall Arnold]

I agree that there are some usability idiosyncracies that those of us who
are used to tools like Adobe Illustrator will have difficulty with. I
reported some of them during the Visio 2003 beta; we'll see if my input
affects Visio 2004. Feel free to report your feedback to the MS wishlist
team; check this link for info:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

Randall Arnold