Microsoft Visio Professional 2003 Win32 English Version/Product Upgrade CD

For IT professionals, engineers, and developers

Provides the most comprehensive technical diagramming and drawing tools available

Create and share complex information

Allows for software diagramming and reverse engineering

This is an upgrade--a previous verion of Visio is required

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The interface with the rest of the Office XP 2003 Suite is vastly improved. I can now take a diagram created in Visio and drop it into Word documents, PowerPoint Presentations and e-mails without having to reformat it. In the past the transfer was never clean.

Once the diagram is embedded, I can emphasize and clarify key points, gather input from team members and even share documents using SharePoint services. This is a huge timesaver for me.

If you embed your diagrams in other documents, you will love this upgrade.

10 of 13 found the following review helpful:

Upgrade InequityOct 24, 2005
By R. Blythe
Disappointed to find out that you cannot upgrade Visio 2003 standard edition with this product. You have to have an "older"

version of Visio 2000 or 2002. Why Microsoft doesn't allow this

upgrade is makes no sense but at $200 for the standard version and $250 for the professional uograde and now another $429 for the full professional version, I guess it does make cents after

all

8 of 11 found the following review helpful:

Powerful, Versatile, Sophisticated Business DiagrammingNov 25, 2003
By Andre Da Costa "A.Da Costa"
Visio has always been an excellent solution for technical diagramming. Version 2003 is no exception and improves upon its predecessor with support for the web and integration with other Office applications. The program still lacks certain elements of Microsoft Office which I feel concerned about. Users are able to import Native Auto CAD drawings directly into Visio, and use the Visio tools to further customize and edit drawings to their hearts content. You can create custom stencils save them and share with other Visio users over a corporate network. You can export diagrams as a webpage so that users who don't have Visio installed locally on their machine can View diagrams through web browser at different resolutions with ease. The program enables IT Adminstrators to create Diagrams for Active Directory role outs for Windows 2000 Server and Server 2003. SQL Server or other third party database products such as Oracle and IBM DB2 can use the Visio functionality to outline a companies storage of data through active digrams that automate how data is stored and used. You can create simple project management task, and also export other Visio digrams to PowerPoint and further edit within PowerPoint or Word.Other features include searching for stencils online in the program, which makes it easy for you to find that particular diagram. Visio still lacks certain elements such as native support for WordArt. Overall, this upgrade is a must have for existing Visio 2000 or 5.0 users, but some 2002 users might not see any need for some of the functionality and might wait first to see if their diagramming and network infrastructure needs demand the new functionality and technology that Visio 2003 has to offer.

1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

Microsoft Visio Professional 2003 UpgradeAug 03, 2005
By ChEng "Reviewer"
I found this upgrade to install easily and well perform as expected. Help function is good but lack of hard copy manual or availabilty of one is a disappointment.

17 of 29 found the following review helpful:

Beware!!! Not an upgrade for Visio 2003 StandardFeb 05, 2004
By Mark Sims
I just purchased this thinking that "of course I can upgrade to Visio 2003 Pro from Visio 2003 Standard". Nope. This is just plain silly. I still am trying to figure out if I can even upgrade my Visio *2003* Standard version to Professional.