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July 2006 - Posts

Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:00 AM

Name and NameU

When programming in Visio it is important to realize that many Visio objects have more than one name. Objects such as Pages, Masters, Cells and others have a local name and a universal name . Why two names? To address the problems that arise when combining
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:00 AM

CAD Integration in Visio

While Visio began mainly as a diagramming package for business, the product has always been capable of making technical drawings. Visio supports measured and scaled drawings. It has features such as layers, guides and dimensions to help users create complex
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Monday, July 24, 2006 12:00 PM

Recruiting for the Visio Customer Council

[All of the Visio blogs are making this announcement about the Visio Customer Council.] We're always looking for ways to better understand the needs and concerns of Visio customers. To that end, one of the tools we use is the Visio Customer Council. Council
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Friday, July 21, 2006 12:00 AM

Creating a Multi-shape

Earlier this week we began creating a digital clock shape. In the previous post we used Visio’s shape operations feature to construct a digit shape for our clock. Today we will add a behavior to the digit to make it display any numeral required. Then
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 3:00 PM

Building Shapes the Easy Way

Shape design is somewhat of an art in Visio. There are so many things that go into creating professional-looking content that a certain level of expertise is required. One of the goals of the Visio Insights blog is to provide that expertise in an understandable
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Friday, July 14, 2006 12:00 PM

Error #318 Explained

Every once in a while we hear from a user who has encountered a cryptic error message in Visio and is left helpless. Most of Visio’s error messages are somewhat explanatory, though we continue to improve their wording. However, there is another set of
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 12:00 AM

Going Around the Block

In a previous post , we mentioned that Visio 2003 introduced a shape rotation handle to quickly allow rotation of shapes. This eliminated the need to switch to a dedicated rotation tool. You can rotate a shape by selecting it and dragging the rotation
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Friday, July 07, 2006 12:00 AM

Visio File Formats

Visio has been around for over 15 years, and there have been many product versions released. One of the biggest issues that can impact users from release to release is a file format change. Changes in Visio's file format can be painful for customers because
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Tuesday, July 04, 2006 12:00 AM

ScreenTips to HTML

Today is a holiday in the US, so we're republishing this topic from a newsgroup post not too long ago. Summary: You can add the User.visEquivTitle cell to your shape and provide a string that will display as a tooltip in HTML web output. The shape must
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