Datasheet

You may have run into problems accessing information on international Web
sites in the past. Vista now supports the special characters used by these Web
sites so that your Visio experience can include data from these sites. In addi-
tion, Vista provides full Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support. This means
that your copy of Visio is ready to work with the additional Web addresses
that IPv6 provides.
All Office products now use the Vista Save, Open, and Insert common dialog
boxes, which means that you gain full access to the Vista functionality. The
Vista functionality includes the ability to organize your files with greater ease
and to search for documents based on metadata as well as regular content.
For example, you can search for a Visio document based on the author or the
comments you provide.
A very useful feature for Visio users is the ability to store a thumbnail of your
diagram. Instead of looking one document at a time for a particular diagram,
you can simply view the thumbnails. This feature makes it considerably
easier to locate a particular diagram. Even when several diagrams look simi-
lar, you can usually reduce the number of diagrams you have to check.
Office also emphasizes reliability under Vista. If Office or Vista detects that a
certain operation could cause the operating system to crash, Office will stop
the operation and tell you about the problem, rather than attempting to per-
form the operation as it did in the past. Generally, this feature means that
you’ll not only see fewer crashes, but you’ll also encounter a reduced risk of
data loss.
Understanding the security features
The biggest reason to use Vista is the security features. It’s a lot easier to pro-
tect the data in your diagrams under Vista and you’ll find that the security is
very reliable. In addition, many of the security features work automatically.
You don’t have to remember to change a setting to protect the data, in many
cases, because Vista does it for you — at least from an operating system
level. The following sections describe a few other security changes for Visio
users under Vista.
Defining the difference between users and administrators
One of the most difficult changes that users will encounter under Vista is that
it differentiates between users and administrators. In addition, every account
works in user mode most of the time. Consequently, activities that might
have worked fine in the past may not work under Vista. For example, you’ll
find that you need to give yourself permission to access your data directory.
Although this sounds very odd, it does help protect your data. No one gains
access to your data unless you specifically give him rights to do so.
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