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September 2009 - Posts

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:02 AM

Inserting and Deleting Shapes in Visio 2010

Diagram maintenance is a task that everyone performs, and many users spend much of their time in Visio maintaining existing diagrams.  We realize that a fair amount of the time you spend maintaining your diagrams is spent in the mechanics of the
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:31 PM

The Visio 2010 Connectivity API

Our previous post on AutoConnect in Visio 2010 discussed how Visio 2010 makes it simpler and faster for end users to create connected diagrams such as flowcharts. Many developers will be pleased to hear that Visio 2010 also brings greatly simplified utilities
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 3:22 PM

AutoConnect in Visio 2010

AutoConnect was a feature first introduced in Visio 2007. The original intent of the feature was to simplify the creation of connected diagrams such as business process flowcharts by accomplishing multiple tasks in a single action: 1. Dropping a new shape
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Friday, September 18, 2009 9:25 AM

Applying a Background or Border Design in Visio 2010

Visio 2010 introduces a new way to apply a background or border and title design to your diagrams. The new Backgrounds and Borders & Titles galleries on the Design tab in the ribbon let you choose from a variety of styles and apply them with one click.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:23 AM

Themes and Live Preview in Visio 2010

In Visio 2007, we introduced the Themes feature to make it easy to apply a professionally designed look to a diagram. In Visio 2010, the Themes feature gets a whole new user interface that takes advantage of the Office Fluent UI . The theme choices are
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Friday, September 11, 2009 5:02 PM

SharePoint Conference 2009

The Visio team is anxiously preparing to introduce Visio Services to the world at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009, which runs from October 19th to 22nd, 2009 in Las Vegas. Visio Services is a new SharePoint feature that allows you to share Visio
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Friday, September 11, 2009 3:00 PM

Introducing Mr. Clarity

Harry Miller and Jonathan Foster in Office Content Publishing recently created a new educational video series called “Clarity," whose aim is to encourage people to learn more about how to use Visio. (Note that these videos feature Visio 2007, rather than
Posted by Visio Team | 2 Comments
Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:18 AM

Creating custom validation rules for Visio 2010

In our last post , we discussed Diagram Validation—a new Visio 2010 feature which allows users to check their diagrams for common errors and allows companies to ensure that employees are following certain diagramming standards. In this post, we’ll talk
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 4:22 PM

Diagram Validation in Visio 2010

Are all the shapes in my diagram labeled? Do I have any loose connectors that are not attached to other shapes? We have heard from customers that it is often hard to answer these types of questions, especially in large diagrams. As a result, they spend
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 6:22 PM

The Developer tab in Visio 2010

Visio has long had a setting called “developer mode” that developers and shape designers can enable in order to surface extra functionality. In previous versions of Visio, enabling developer mode made new items appear in couple of different menus (Chris
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 4:07 PM

Cross-functional Flowcharts in Visio 2010

For flowcharts that have clearly defined stakeholders and assignments, cross-functional flowcharts are often used. Today, cross-functional flowcharts can span a whole conference room’s wall. The number of swimlanes can grow to five or even ten! At the
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