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Friday, June 30, 2006 12:00 AM

Getting to Know Your Neighbors - Quickly

Visio's SpatialNeighbors property is useful for finding shapes that are nearby other shapes or that overlap other shapes. It can be used to programmatically answer the question "What did I drop my shape on top of?". Unfortunately, the SpatialNeighbors
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:00 AM

Going Off the Page

In an ideal world every business process would each fit on a single page. Users have employed a variety of techniques to squeeze more information into a finite space. Ultimately some business process diagrams must span across more than one page. To maintain
Posted by Visio Team | 8 Comments
Friday, June 23, 2006 12:00 AM

Cutting Corners

One of the challenges in Visio shape design is striking a balance between custom behavior and standard behavior. The shape designer has one notion about how a shape should be used, and users often have a different notion. Ideally the shape designer allows
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:00 AM

After Further Review

Several users have encountered a situation in Visio 2003 where the Reviewing toolbar is always shown. Even once you turn off the toolbar, it reappears the next time the document is opened or the next time the Visio application is launched. Here are some
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Friday, June 16, 2006 12:00 AM

How It All Began

We're going to wrap up our look at Visio's essential features with the most significant innovation of all - the SHAPE. Essential Feature: Shapes A central concept in Visio is assembling a diagram from a pre-packaged set of content. Users do not need to
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006 12:00 AM

Intelligent Diagrams

This is the sixth topic in a series discussing the essential features that make up the Visio application. Essential Feature: Extensibility Part of the original vision for Visio was that you could use it to make almost any kind of drawing. Rather than
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Friday, June 09, 2006 12:00 AM

Retooling for Success

This is the fifth topic in a series discussing the essential features that make up the Visio application. Essential Feature: Drawing Tools Visio bills itself as a diagramming application, and Drag & Drop is the core feature that makes Visio easy to
Posted by Visio Team | 1 Comments
Tuesday, June 06, 2006 12:00 AM

Take a Closer Look

This is the fourth topic in a series discussing the essential features that make up the Visio application. Essential Feature: Zoom From business processes to project schedules to organization charts to network topologies, there are many different kinds
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Friday, June 02, 2006 12:00 AM

Gluing It All Together

This is the third topic in a series discussing the essential features that make up the Visio application. Essential Feature: Connectors The fundamental drawing type in Visio is the flowchart - a collection of boxes connected together by lines. When Visio
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