Category Archives: Visio

This week there were changes to the site that hosts Visio.MVPs.org and the site lost it’s navigation capabilities so I had to scramble and upgrade the site from FrontPage to Expression Web. In general, it was a very painless experience, but there was a lot to learn. Using Master.dwtmade life very easy, but for someContinue reading “Upgrading to Expression Web”

For those who want assistance with reading the Visio xml format, (*.vdx), Microsoft has made the XML Schema Definition files (*.XSD) available for download. Visio 2010 XSD John Marshall… Visio MVP       Visio.MVPs.org

One of the long time requests for the Visio timeline is to support something other than standard dates and times, items that are not related to the standard concept of time. This can be accomplished by NOT using date formats in the shapes. Each shape is grouped and has a top level shape that containsContinue reading “Visio – Non standard Timelines”

I finally got a real copy of Visio 2010 Step by Step by fellow Visio MVP Scott Helmers. It looks far nicer than the copy I edited. I really had to get nitpicky to comment on the book. Other than not putting “u” in “colour”, he is a good writer and there was a goodContinue reading “Visio 2010 SBS”

I see that SmartDraw is still not being honest when they compare themselves to Visio. Visio was the innovator in business graphics alomst twenty years ago. There is always a competitor who wants to grow their business by comparing themselves to the innovator. CorelFlow did that for awhile. So what is wrong with the comparison?Continue reading “Pretender to the Throne”

With Visio 2010, Visio has now joined the other core Office apps and now supports the ribbon. The ribbon on displays what is relavent for the task at hand. With the old menus, I ended up turning almost all of them on and wasting screen real estate. So in a way, I like the newContinue reading “The Ribbon is cute, but where is…”