Merging shapes in Visio 2010

Is it possible in Visio 2010 to merge shapes? i.e. union, combine, etc. as detailed at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/HP010254151033.aspx
With the ribbon interface, there's obviously no Shape menu, and I have not been able to locate anything similar. Searching this forum, the internet and the built-in help does not yield any results. Is it possible this feature has been removed from the 2010 version?
Thanks.
Colin

Sadly this is just symptomatic of the hole down which MS applications are dropping. The new menu layouts are generally an unmitigated disaster. No, they’re not better organised, they are simply different so that people can no
longer find things. I have yet to find *anyone* who likes the new menus. IMHO Office peaked at the 2003 version and despite nice additions since, the complete mess of the UI means an overall detraction from the products.
This is nicely demonstrated by ‘Shape Design’ being in the Developer tab and by default hidden. Quite what bit of mind-bending logic thought that was an appropriate home for commonly used drawing tools?
And as has been pointed out, the help system is now a mess. In this case ‘combine’ and ‘union’ yield nothing, but it’s the same in the rest of Office. No longer a well organised help system, with say in Excel functions neatly
cross-referenced so you can find the right function by following a trail. In its place a scrape of web content, some of which is good, some not so, but with any form of real help system now submerged.
I saw a great post on another MS forum where someone did some simple maths of the number of Office users in his corporation, their cost to the company, and each being stalled for 10 minutes trying to find where things have been
moved to. I think it worked out at a $25M cost to the corporation, and a 10 min stall would be very very conservative as Office is now a complete re-learning exercise.
So sorry guys, Office starting with 2007 is just a complete disaster and people should be fired. You wonder why people don’t want to upgrade their software and move from XP and Office 2003?
This is one of the primary reasons. They have products that do all they need *and which they can use*. If people cannot use new versions due to ‘improvements’, then they are worthless. In fact worse than worthless, they are actually
costly in the lost time and productivity.

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