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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:00 AM

What's in Your Drawing?

This post will be a little experiment to try out file attachments on the blog. When customers send files to us, we often want to get a general understanding about the drawing contents. This is common in scenarios where customers are concerned about performance
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Attachment(s): DrawingAnalyzer.vsd
Friday, August 25, 2006 12:00 AM

No More Template Help

A common newsgroup question is how to prevent the Template Help task pane from appearing every time a document is opened. Not only do we see lots of newsgroup posts about this, it turns out that one of the more common pieces of feedback we receive through
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 12:00 AM

Running with Characters, part 2

In the previous post we looked at the Characters object in Visio and used it to find the runs of formatted text in a shape. In this post we’ll complete the scenario by reading the formatting information from the Shapesheet to match it up with the text
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Friday, August 18, 2006 12:00 AM

Running with Characters

When working with shape text through automation, the Text property of a Shape is generally sufficient to get and set the text. However, this simple property ignores the fact that Visio text may have rich formatting applied or that the text is composed
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:00 AM

Sizing Shapes to Text

In a previous post, we saw how to use the ShapeSheet to resize text based on a shape’s size. A related question we sometimes hear is how to make a shape automatically resize to contain its text. Visio includes some shapes that resize based on their text.
Posted by Visio Team | 1 Comments
Friday, August 11, 2006 12:00 AM

Sizing Text with Shapes

We occasionally get questions about how to size shapes to text or text to shapes. While most Visio shapes do not behave like this by default, both cases are made possible through ShapeSheet formulas. In fact, Visio includes some shapes that resize based
Posted by Visio Team | 1 Comments
Tuesday, August 08, 2006 12:00 AM

Adding Your Own Shapes to Visio

Visio users and developers often wonder how to distribute their newly created Visio shapes to their colleagues, friends and family (all depends on your friends and family I guess J ). Visio offers two mechanisms to publish content, each suited to different
Posted by Visio Team | 3 Comments
Friday, August 04, 2006 12:00 AM

Shapes in the Cloud

If you can’t find the shape you’re looking for in Visio, it may be available online. There are several sets of shapes available only on the Web. In this post, we’ll talk about these shapes and how to find them. The online shapes can be accessed using
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006 12:00 AM

Shortcuts to Edit in Visio

There is a lot of cool functionality in Visio, and some may be more accessible than you think. Especially for those of you who are keyboard aficionados, keyboard shortcuts in Visio could save you time better spent in polishing your diagram. Here are a
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