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The other kind of chart I wanted to show you how to make in Visio 2007 is called The Feature Comparison Chart. Now, you notice that in the charting shape stencil, we have lots of different chart and graph types to choose from, so again I want to encourage you to spend time playing with these. There is pie charts, divided bar charts and so forth, but the feature comparison really stands on it's own. Let's drag that out onto the drawing page and when we let go we receive the shape data dialog that asks us how many features and products we want to compare. This is nice for business if you want to present your customers with say, the distinctions and features among two or more different products. These could be guitars, or software additions or any multi-valued product that you have. So in this example, why don't we look at say, four features across three products. All right, and there we go. There is our shape. Of course we can customize the theme and the color and all of that stuff. To change the labels here, we would just select each shape box or text box actually is what they are and then just simply begin to type. So let's see, Visio Standard and let's click the second one. Visio Professional. And then let's say this third one, let's say OmniGraffle. By the way, I will just say this off to the side, Visio is a Windows only product, that is to say, Microsoft Visio is not available on the Apple Mac OS-10 platform, so for Mac users who want Visio type functionality, probably the leading piece of software out there is called OmniGraffle. Just wanted to give you a heads up on that. And of course we can do the same thing here with features. Feature one, feature two, click the third one, feature three, and then finally feature four. Now, how do we specify those features? Well, we will see that there is a feature on off shape here and if we drag that out into the appropriate box, we can change it's status, filled circle, hollow circle or blank. A lot of times it's just good enough. Let me zoom in here a little bit, to just use the filled circle. You could if you wanted to, use the other method and that involves enabling features by displaying a filled circle and showing an absence of a feature by the hollow circle. And we can hold down control and use our mouse to easily drag and drop those shapes to another location. So I'm going to hold down Control, I'm going to go ahead and duplicate that in several spots here. Whoops. If you make a mistake, remember the undo command Control-Z or we can use the undo command on the formatting tool bar. I'm going to actually step back one more time, so let's select, hold down Control, there we go. Looking good. So let's zoom out and take a look and see what we have so far. So that is what it looks like, that's what a feature comparison looks like. And again, we can slam dunk these in any other Microsoft Office applications. We will open Edit, go to Copy Drawing, we will pop open Microsoft Word and we will say, Here is our feature comparison. What we're going to do here on Microsoft Word is set up our inserted item, we will say, here is our feature comparison. Sometimes I will put in like a place holder and then I will type Resume and that way what we can do is place our cursor in the middle of those two paragraphs and then come to Paste Special and let's paste this in not as a Visio object, but this time let's go ahead and put this in as a Windows Metafile picture. That's going to put this in kind of a non-editable format, if that makes any sense. So let's go to Print Preview and take a look. And there it is, there is our inserted Visio object in a Microsoft Word document. And again, the point with choosing that particular option, in other words the Paste Special Dialog box, choosing one of the graphic formats, is that double-clicking this item simply brings up picture property choices and doesn't actually open the item for editing in Visio, like what happens when you insert this as a Visio object. Hopefully that explanation was a little clearer than mud.