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Further Around the Bend

If you want to fill a shape, the basic rule is that you need consecutive line segments that form a closed loop. You can also go into the shapesheet and set the NoFill cell of the Geometry section to False. In this case, the numbers are the shapesheet row numbers, the green arrows show theContinue reading “Further Around the Bend”

Space the Final Frontier

As I was trolling the Answers forums for Visio questions, I came across an interesting question about Space shapes in the Japanese forums. No, I am not a linguist, but Suzy and the Answers team has provided a great tool so moderators can help in other languages. In the past, I used a Powershell scriptContinue reading “Space the Final Frontier”

Visio Shape Explorer

To be able to create the Visio Visual Section document meant, I needed to mine the information from Visio shapes. The easiest way was to let loose CellsSrc() on a series of shapes and let the code create a file of what it found. Visio is big on using enumerations, but they are not goodContinue reading “Visio Shape Explorer”

Visio Visual Sections – Update

I have added a description to each section in the Visual Sections document and added some missing details. I was able to fill in some of the blanks. A new copy is available in the Download section.

Whose my parent?

Sorry David, no pictures this time. This is a very quick post. I came across a Stack OverFlow question. The user had a shape that contained other shapes and wanted how to reference the parent shape. The posted answer…. Although there nothing like “parent”, you can use shape id directly. You need to find theContinue reading “Whose my parent?”

UK Counties

The map of the UK Counties is far from perfect, but I have uploaded it in case what is there is good enough. There is also UK map by David Parker I mentioned in my Canadian Map blog. Here is the Visio drawing of UK Counties.

Oh? Canada

I enjoyed embellishing the US map by states so I decided to create another one. I had considered doing one of Canada, but from personal experience, I knew some of the members of the current Visio team do not like Canadians. Though the earlier Visio team had created an add-on called Maps, the current mapContinue reading “Oh? Canada”

US Map

Earlier this month, someone asked if there was a Visio shape of the US segmented by states. The user wanted to add data to the states (Data Connectivity) and colour the states depending on that data (Data Graphics – Colour by Value). My usual recommendation is to find a suitable image in SVG format. IContinue reading “US Map”

List Container

I did not have a good spring healthwise. The worst part was not having access to a Visio machine. Thanks to the prompting from a friend, I have made it to my Visio machine to write about Visio. One thing I seem to have overlooked in my quest for being able to create Visio sectionContinue reading “List Container”

I need a break

I was programming Visio almost from the beginning. At the time it was in C. Around version 3, Visio was the first non MS product to fully implement VBA, including the macro recorder. When VBA was introduced, I was hooked. I could quickly automate Visio. Well almost, they did not trap the Break key. YouContinue reading “I need a break”