I needed to create a new shape that was a series of dots, from zero to six. The shape had one property that determined the number of dots. The easy way would be to create a series of circle shapes, group them and control the visibility of each dot from the group shape. I tendContinue reading “Visio Ellipse Part 1”
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Graham to the Rescue
This week I was bored and decided to create a new collection of Visio shapes. It should be an easy task, some of the shapes were just block letters in a circle. This was a single shape that could be one of those four letters. Since I wanted to save the Shape Text for somethingContinue reading “Graham to the Rescue”
I need con text.
I was looking through blogs and documentation on the Visio shapesheet and though the author did a good job, sometimes the point was lost because they used screen grabs of the shapesheet. The Visio shapesheet is a busy place and highlighting the key points is not easy. So, I created a set of Shapesheet sectionContinue reading “I need con text.”
Why are #Visio H and Fs so Lame?
This question came up recently and though I have insisted that Visio authors mention that background pages are the Visio way, this goes into more detail. Word has had the ability to add special text at the top and the bottom of the page called Headers and Footers. They contained information like dates, page number,Continue reading “Why are #Visio H and Fs so Lame?”
Cruise runs aground
While I was creating the cruise demo, I ran into a problem removing the data source from the connected data. I had created the drawing and tried it as a data connected diagram and went back and tweaked the drawing. Since I wanted to start the demo with a clean diagram I tried to removeContinue reading “Cruise runs aground”
Techniques for creating Visio Shapes
Most Visio users barely scratch the surface when dealing with the product. I recently watched a video where a Visio expert dropped a shape on a page and then used the Text tool to create a label for the shape. All Visio shapes have a text block and there is a Text block tool ifContinue reading “Techniques for creating Visio Shapes”
Adding Shape Data to a series of new shapes
I have been playing with Visio Visualization in Power BI and the first step is to create a Visio drawing. Basically it is a bunch of shapes, but I need to add Shape Data to the new shapes, basically the key that will link the shape to the row of data in Excel. I couldContinue reading “Adding Shape Data to a series of new shapes”
Removing unwanted properties from a collection of masters
In addition to cleaning up how the masters looked, I also had masters that contained user and custom (AKA Shape Data) properties that were no longer needed. Again VBA was useful. So I used the following code to Public Sub CleanMasters() Dim vsoMaster As Visio.Master Dim vsoMasterCopy As Visio.Master Dim vsoShape As Visio.Shape For EachContinue reading “Removing unwanted properties from a collection of masters”
Clean up Visio Masters
Anyone who has created Visio masters may have noticed that the masters may require cleanup. When selecting a master to edit, you may notice that the edit window seems to be empty and you will need to center the image to bring it back in view. Other times, the shape is bigger than the pageContinue reading “Clean up Visio Masters”
Microsoft MVP
There are a number of articles on how to become an MVP and since is the 25th anniversary of the programme, I thought I should add my view and fill in some the background. Last year Visio turned 25. I have volunteered with the product team for 24 of those years, something that no otherContinue reading “Microsoft MVP”
