Visio Command Reference

[streborc]

I've been a Visio user since the early 1990's before Microsoft became involved. Over the years, I've become fairly adept at creating illustration drawings for a variety of technical documents. 

When I purchased a new PC a year ago, equipped with Windows 7 Pro, I found that unlike many applications that continued to work just fine, Visio 2000 was (intentionally, I believe) unstable.  Reluctantly, I upgraded to Visio 2010, and entered re-education camp as I searched for many commands in the new ribbon toolbar arrangement. 

I purchased VisioGuy's book hoping it would help, but I found it to be primarily a beginner's guide describing how to draw a box, save it, and print it.  What I would be interested in is a command reference guide - a glossary of the multitude of available commands in Visio 2010, and examples of use of the more abstract commands.  Probably half the commands are self-evident, but I've never really understood the differences of the operations "Join", "Union", and "Fragment", for example.  I think I know what they should do, but when unusual things happen, I just "undo" and attack the drawing differently.  Does anyone know of such a reference for advanced users who are midway between novices and professional developers?

[aledlund]

You might try some of these. Even though the reference talks v2007 vs. v2010 for at least some of it the relationship is menu bar to ribbon.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18763

al

[streborc]

Thanks for the lead.  I checked these out, but they're mostly translation directories - where to find all the commands now that they're nested differently in Visio 2010.  When you right-click on the Quick Access Toolbar and select Customize and then Choose Commands from All Commands, a huge selection of available commands appears.  Many are self evident, but many are cryptic.  I'm guessing I could make good use of many of them, but lack the time to experiment.