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Friday, September 29, 2006 12:00 PM

More on SetAtRef

In the previous post we examined how the SetAtRef function could be used to keep two Shapesheet cells synchronized. Today we will explore a few advanced capabilities of SetAtRef for manipulating cell values. Our scenario is a shape with a custom property
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 12:00 AM

Text Control Handles

Shape control handles offer users convenient ways to take advantage of the intelligence built into the shape by a designer. Perhaps the most common use for a control handle is to link it to the text on a shape. While Visio provides the Text Block Tool
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:00 AM

New Visio Resource and More

There are several housekeeping items in today's post. New resource Chris Roth, a Visio MVP, has begun a new Visio blog: http://www.wanderkind.com/visio/ Check out articles on creating flowcharts from code and hiding parts of shapes . Recruiting Visio
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Friday, September 15, 2006 12:00 PM

Better Layout Using Dynamic Glue

Visio makes it easy for users to place shapes anywhere and provides connectors for maintaining connections between shapes. However, as diagrams get more complicated, users often look to Visio for help organizing shape placement and connector routing on
Posted by Visio Team | 4 Comments
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:00 AM

How Far Can I Zoom In?

Here’s a recent question on the newsgroups that has come up several times in the past. It seems that the larger you make a page in Visio, the less you can zoom in to see the details. This is true. There is a maximum zoom limit in Visio, and this maximum
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Friday, September 08, 2006 12:00 PM

Printing Comments

Visio 2003 introduced a new Reviewer & Markup feature that allows users to add comments to diagrams. A typical question we are asked is “How do I print the comments?” This capability was not included in the markup feature, but our Product Support
Posted by Visio Team | 3 Comments
Tuesday, September 05, 2006 12:00 AM

Seeing While You Drag

There have been several recent newsgroup questions relating to dragging shapes around on the page. Sometimes you get to see the geometry you are dragging around. Other times you only see an outline rectangle. A similar issue is that dragging is quite
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Friday, September 01, 2006 12:00 PM

Joining the Club

In an earlier post we talked about Visio being a general purpose diagramming and drawing application that enabled specialized behavior through its extensibility model. Custom shapes are combined with custom code to create an intelligent diagramming solution
Posted by Visio Team | 0 Comments
 
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