Today, someone asked where the Venn Diagram was in Visio. There is a support article https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-venn-diagram-in-visio-447d65f4-79a3-411d-811d-bfdea7f83e2d The actual description for manually creating a Venn digram is okay, but a bit of overkill. You can just create a circle duplicate it twice, move them apart and distribute them horizontally (only worry about the distance between theContinue reading “Venn Diagram”
Category Archives: Visio
Exploring the Visio file
I have been voluntarily supporting Visio for almost thirty years since version 1, after I found a promo version of Visio on a Windows update floppy. Before that I had been creating business diagrams by writing code to drive plotters. The first version was in assembler, the second was in COBOL. The COBOL was farContinue reading “Exploring the Visio file”
Visio Ellipse Part 4
So, why the interest in the Ellipse row? I came across a set of symbols that seemed ideal for Visio and some of the shapes had an interesting way of indicating heat settings. A series of dots from one to six. Initially I wanted to do this as a shapesheet segment, so I worked outContinue reading “Visio Ellipse Part 4”
Visio Ellipse Part 3
Decoupling the ellipse from the shape So, it is easy to create a circle shape and move it around the page, but what is needed to create a circle and move it within a shape? The problem is that the Ellipse row created has cells based on the Height and Width of the containing shape.Continue reading “Visio Ellipse Part 3”
Visio Ellipse Part 2
Rotation So, what happens when a circle rotates? The Geometry row is unchanged, but the shape angle changes and the bounding box is at an angle. To correct the bounding box, you can do Developer > Operations > Union. Now the shape looks the same as before, but if you look at the Ellipse Row,Continue reading “Visio Ellipse Part 2”
Visio Ellipse Part 1
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”
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”
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