Visual Sections – john Visio MVP

Organizing VBA Routines, Sort Of

This is not a routine for just Visio VBA, but it will work for other Office Apps that use VBA. VBA modules do not have to have unique procedure names. As long as you do not Run the module, VBA will not complain. The VBA editor does have a drop down alphabetical list for theContinue reading “Organizing VBA Routines, Sort Of”

History of Visio Visual Section Shapes

I have been playing with Visio since 93 when customer support was on CompuServe. With Visio, I could create Business diagrams easily. Before that I was creating the diagrams by using code, including COBOL. Around version 3, Visio was the first non MS company to fully implement VBA, including the macro recorder. So since then,Continue reading “History of Visio Visual Section Shapes”

Updated Custom Property Dump

(AKA Shape Data Dump) Decades ago, I created a simple VBA script to dump a shapes Custom Properties (Aka Shape data). If I wanted to include the Custom Properties Section in documentation I had to run Show Shapesheet and take a screen capture. It was just an image. Since Visio shapes are more flexible inContinue reading “Updated Custom Property Dump”

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 goodContinue reading “Visio Shape Explorer”

Visio Visual Sections – Update

I have added a description to each section in the Visual Sections document and added some missing details. I was able to fill in some of the blanks. A new copy is available in the Download section.