The standard name for a Visio shape is Sheet.nnnn and most people change it to a more logical name. You can do this with the sub shapes that make up a grouped shape. So, what happens if you decide to revert back to the original Sheet.nnn style? Select the subshape from the Drawing Explorer (OpenContinue reading “What is in a Name?”
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Shape Data or Context Menu? Why not both?
In Visio 2010, the Visio team added a Flyout Child cell to the Context menu of a shape. John Goldsmith did a good write up. Visio 2010 custom context menu So, if you are building a Visio shape, you have two ways of controlling how a shape behaves, the context menu or by using ShapeContinue reading “Shape Data or Context Menu? Why not both?”
I need an OED
I have enhanced the Visio stencil shapes so that each shape has custom properties (AKA Shape Data) that is pulled down to the various cells in the shape. I have also updated how the Control Handles that control the width of the cells work. So,I now have a stencil of Visio section shapes that IContinue reading “I need an OED”
Happy 30th Birthday Axon
Last month Axon turned 30. Axon? A few years later they changed their name to ShapeWare and released Visio 1. I have been playing with computers since the mid 60s, basically, most of my life and a lot of that time was spent creating business diagrams. I know it is strange to admit to usingContinue reading “Happy 30th Birthday Axon”
Connection Strip
There was a recent request in https://visio.uservoice.com/ about Distribute connectors vertically and horizontally and it sounded like an interesting shape to create. It is basically a 1-D shape (a line that is attached to a 2-D shape to add connection points.) The shape has fifteen connection points, but uses Shape Data to make from 1Continue reading “Connection Strip”
ShapeSheet Shapes
A lot of people only know Visio as an app to create business diagrams with clip art and connecting lines. Some have realized you can connect the diagram to a data source like Excel and bring life to the content. Some have also realzed you can add embelishments to the shapes called Data Graphics thatContinue reading “ShapeSheet Shapes”
Visio Stencil Sort
One of the things I noticed when reviewing Visio’s User Voice was the request for being able to have the shapes (they are actually masters) in the stencils be sorted. This is some code I have for keeping the masters in the document stencil sorted. Here is the before and after.
Word Art in Visio
I was searching through Visio User Voice https://visio.uservoice.com/ for ideas of shapes to create and came across a request for converting text to outlines, something Adobe has. The feature does not exist in Visio, but it does exist in the other Office products like Word and PPT. So the easy answer is to create theContinue reading “Word Art in Visio”
Venn Diagram
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”
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”
