Anyone new to Visio may not be aware of why Visio has both Headers/Footers and background pages or know that there is such a thing as a background page. In Visio 1, the developers created the concept of type basic types of pages; foreground and background. The foreground pages were the pages that were actuallyContinue reading “Visio’s Headers/Footers or Background Pages?”
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Visio’s Only one Background Page?
In several online tutorials (non Microsoft), it is usually mentioned that you can only have one background page. This is partially true. A page can only have one background page. This is often interpreted as meaning only foreground pages, but background pages can also have background pages. So it is possible, that a foreground pageContinue reading “Visio’s Only one Background Page?”
Help with Visio
I subscribe to Google Alerts to known when items using the word “Visio” on the net. Most of the time it is about Visio TVs (Seems by the number of police reports, it is a favourite device of thieves), copies of Visio for sale or mentioned as a job requirement. Occassionaly there are a fewContinue reading “Help with Visio”
HELP! What is that ABOUT?
Or The Frustions of Development… I know that the Windows Phone is a new environment, but life would be easier with some good examples. Of course, actually finding these examples is also an excercise in frustration. Since the original C langage (aka COBOL), the use of compound words has been prevalent. Names like BRINGFORWARDDAILYREVENUETAXAMOUNTS wereContinue reading “HELP! What is that ABOUT?”
Visio’s Multi-Shape
This week I had a request for assistance in finding Visio’s flowchart multi-shape. Rather than being in the Basic Flowchart stencil, it is now in Software and Database –> Program Structure in a stencil called Language Level Shapes and is called Flowchart shapes. This is an interesting shape because it contains four shapes with onlyContinue reading “Visio’s Multi-Shape”
Visio Shape for Theatre Lighting
A few years ago I came across a document from the USITT, “USITT RP-2 Recommended Practice for Theatrical Lighting Design Graphics”, that illustrated the graphics to be used in Theatre lighting. It looked like a good example for Visio shapes, so I created a collection. Rather than a shape for shape creation, this is aContinue reading “Visio Shape for Theatre Lighting”
Guitar Electronics/Pickup Shapes for Microsoft Visio
Along with a link to “How to switch a Visio TV to USB” in my daily Google Alert on anything Visio was a little gem about creating pickup shapes for a Telecaster in Visio. The link brought me to the Telecaster forums where there was a lively discussion on how to create the shapes The OPContinue reading “Guitar Electronics/Pickup Shapes for Microsoft Visio”
Visio GeoTrax
Any time I get bored I do a web search on keywords. Today I was looking for an old Visio logo and did a Bing on “Visio 1”. One of the interesting discovery was a stencil for Geotrax http://malweth.net/geotrax/index.html Link broken ;-( For more on Fisher Prices GeoTrax go to http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?st=5754&e=product&pid=62714&pcat=geotraxgeoplaces Link broken ;-( JohnContinue reading “Visio GeoTrax”
Visio Group on Drop
I spent a few hours tonight trying to figure out why dropping a shape onto a group was no longer working. The concept is that you can specify a shape as a group and then drop another shape on top of it and the second shape becomes part of the original group. This requires thatContinue reading “Visio Group on Drop”
Visio Shape Data Dialog box
You can add shape data in several places in Visio. To a shape, to a page or to a document. The first two have a dialog associated with them so the user can use the UI to modify the values. Though you can add shape data to the document shapesheet, you can not easily manipulateContinue reading “Visio Shape Data Dialog box”
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