Lazycoder

Perhaps Visio feels a sense of ownership with your diagram.

visio,shit!

Visio is horrible, I’m trying to make sequence diagrams. For some reason making an activation bar bigger causes all existing message arrows to swap positions into all kinds of stupid diagonals. It is so annoying. I hate Visio.

I too just googled “Visio sucks” as I had to tale a break from this piece of crap software that wants to do all of my thinking for me while doing do with the brain of a hamster.

Visio was always a little strange, but ever since M$ took it over, it has just become near unusable.

I am sure if I could figure out how to turn the hamster brain off, it would be fine, but I shouldn’t have to dive so damn deep to make it just freaking stop doing things on its own!!!!!

Gaaaaahhhhhh

Seriously, has nobody found an alternative to Visio? How about a Visio alternative that saves a drawing as a single file instead of keeping all images separate?

Visio sucks, but so does every other drawing tool. The open office draw is just as bad, “Dia” is worse (doing something on multiple selected objects just affects one at random) – and what else is there?

If you are creating IT systems diagrams that are constantly changing, check out pathwaysystems dot com. Our IT department purchased their Relations product to replace the need for Visio.

Fuck hell this crap program is annoying. A simple flowchart takes for ever to build and is not at all dynamic and open for changes.
Please microsoft, spend some time on tuning your products! And maybe send them to someone that can tip you off on the suckiness before you ship them!

I bought MS Visio to upgrade to my new computer. figure I would pay them and be honest. I GOT MS VISIO BASIC by mistake!!

I cannot return it.

$285 bucks for fckng squares, rectangles and triangles in colors to do flow diagrams. I will never buy a MS product again as long as I live whenever possible.

All I want to do is JOIN a few lines together into a closed shape and then fill it with a color. I had some early successes but now I have an L-shaped table that WILL NOT FILL!!!!!! Damn Visio! If you highlight the entire shape and click JOIN it should friggin’ JOIN!!!

Adobe Illustrator allows slecting the two endpoint together and joining, so why not Visio? Maybe because Microsoft still can’t even put readable fonts on their 15yr old CALCULATOR app! Arrrrgggghhhh!!!!!!

One more google search for ‘visio is shit’. I can’t believe how can a tool make a simple work so harder.

All I want is to convert a serie o excel rows into shapes, and connect them by matching two columns. It took me already two hours of research, and nothing is done.

I started using it today, and I’m dropping it today. Less than 3 hour to figure out this is complete shit.

FUCK VISIO

Ohw yes this site makes my day, I’m not the only one
who’s wasting his time with visio 200*, I don’t know what’s worse the bp oil disaster or visio
please vote….

haha yet another “visio sucks” googler chancing upon this thread. i totally hate it man. why can’t people just stick to drawing their flowcharts in Excel or Powerpoint. these other options are so much more flexible!

I find myself annoyed by certain quirks of Visio, but I don’t think it is quite as a bad as being made out. I think it is impossible for software to be both powerful, generic and trivially easy to learn.

If it was easy to create a drawing tool for everyone, it would exist and you would all be using it.

A lot of the complaints here can be mitigated by learning the tool and configuring it correctly. But that requires more concentration and effort than complaining.

This applies to Visio 2010, in the menu bar under “View” click “Visual Aids” in the lower right hand corner of its respective space, it presents you with a dialog box, then select/de-select those that you need/don’t need; if you de-select all it quits thinking for you.

I am furious. I just bought Visio 2010 to upgrade from an old version. Spent $225 + tax from Office Depot which is going out of business so I can’t even return it.
I installed it, opened it and BANG, COMPLETELY unintuitive! I am furious. What the HE!! is wrong with Microsoft!!!!!!! FIRE the developers. They have absolutely no concept of good design principles. I am completely besides myself and livid.
God help us all if Microsoft starts building cars – steering wheel on the left, bakes on the right. passenger seats hidden in the trunk …
Frig!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You think that’s bad – try drawing a simple straight line in V2010.  To say that this program sucks demeans oral sex.

And I would say to those who say “Oh, it’s not that bad, all you have to do is learn the tool”  B.S.  I have used Visio since before MS bought them. I have suffered through each “improvement.” But none has been as bad as the move to 2010.  Their lame attempt to “standardize” the tool structure has made it, for me, totally unusable.  What I want to do is draw a straight line.  Nothing complex, a series of straight lines so that I can communicate the information that I want to. No connectors, no complex links, just a series of straight lines drawing with more precision that is available with a really dumb tool such as Power Point.

To make it worse I’m working at home, on a Saturday, trying to get work done for a meeting on Monday, and I’m spending a couple of hours trying to figure out how to draw – a straight line. And to make to make it worse, I have 2007 at work so I will need to “unlearn” on Monday.

The whole UI is a POS.