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Never thought I'd be the direct subject of a post!!!
Well, Yacine, you're correct. I'm retired, so 80 - 90% of Visio usage is the forum. The rest is for pleasure or incidental documentation for hobbies, volunteer work, etc. V2007 meets virtually all of my needs except for the increased frequency of questions by the "modern" users. I'd say about 50% of those are general enough to be answerable via V2007 feature set...other than VSDX vs VSD file issues. For those, I'd expect the original poster to re-format the upload.
Yes, cost is a consideration. But, before retirement, my company upgraded to V2010. I learned very quickly to hate concept of the ribbon....well, as M$ implemented it. It does exactly opposite of it's proposed purpose...The work flow became more complex, less efficient, and with it, each release has become increasingly buggy. Visio has become full of fluff, but lacks the stuff. I expect market share to dwindle as competitors get increasingly cohesive packages to market.
I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, so to speak, but with Visio, I'd probably make an exception. Besides, there are very knowledgeable contributors to the forum who easily field the issues raised on the forum.
Thanks for the thought and offer...just means you, Paul, Nikolay, Surrogate, Vojo, and...and...and... will have to answer more questions!
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