Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Inside Out

Using Visio 2007 Shapes and Diagrams in Presentations

You’re giving a presentation to the team and need to unveil the schedule for a new project. Could you do it using only bullet points? Certainly. But if you’ve read those books about creating winning presentations, you know that a picture carries more weight with your audience than a slide full of text, or a little over 1,000 words, whichever comes first, as the slides in Figure 13-1 show.

Figure 13-1. Two looks at the same slide: Before Visio 2007, the slide used only text to convey its message. After bullets are replaced with an Visio 2007 timeline, the slide’s purpose is much clearer.

In the past, many Microsoft Office customers used PowerPoint as their primary diagramming tool because ...