Visio does not handle rows well and lists easily in the shapesheet, you can not do basic things like sorting the rows. So I use my favourite list handling app, Excel. When I need to manage large amounts of shape data, I manage it in Excel and then use VBA to remove the old shapeContinue reading “Colour My World Part II”
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Friendly Visio Stencil
I am working with a stencil that contains almost 400 shapes and it is far from friendly. Normally a new stencil will show the icon for the shape and its’ name. With this project, the name is far from helpful. Undecypherable is more appropriate. If you right click the band at the top of theContinue reading “Friendly Visio Stencil”
Open Shape Surgery for the Visio Developer
One of the first gotchas for new Visio developers is the UnGroup command. Visio shapes are simple, they can have one colour and one line type. To make a traffic light, you need to group a red circle, yellow circle and a green circle. When grouped, Visio will take a collection of shapes and createContinue reading “Open Shape Surgery for the Visio Developer”
