Visio Shape Dictionary
One thing I have been thinking about for a long time is Visio documentation for Smart Shapes. In the past new stencils were introduced with a document that out lined special “magic” that the shapes contained. Now most novice/new Visio users just assume that Visio shapes are glorified clip art. Even some of the “official”…
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 the…
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 script…
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 good…
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