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Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:36 PM

Using a Visio Process Repository

We frequently speak with Visio users whose organizations need to manage collections of process diagrams. Many of these users are employing basic methods such as storing these documents on network file shares. However, these methods leave much to be desired.
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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
Posted by Visio Team | 1 Comments
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
Friday, August 21, 2009 2:44 PM

Improved Flowchart Routing in Visio 2010

When creating and maintaining flowcharts, a pain point users suffer from is ensuring that the connectors between shapes look good. Visio introduced the dynamic connector many releases ago to help simplify diagram maintenance. Dynamic connectors in combination
Posted by Visio Team | 3 Comments
Friday, August 22, 2008 3:30 PM

Using Visio 2007 Professional's data connectivity features with timelines

Visio 2007 provides data connectivity support for a number of data sources such as Excel, SQL and SharePoint Lists. One interesting scenario is to pull in schedule information from a SharePoint calendar (a special list type in SharePoint) to generate
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:00 AM

Visio Conference 2008 videos posted

For anyone who wasn't able to attend the Visio Conference 2008 this February or has been itching to show everyone else the cool things coming in Visio "vNext", the wait is over! Videos from all the conference sessions are posted on http://www.visiotoolbox.com
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:00 AM

Extra drawings opening on Visio launch

This situation has come up frequently enough in the newsgroups that the solution should be widely circulated: When Visio crashes, it will often restart and recover the document you were working on. This is generally quite helpful, but sometimes Visio
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Friday, February 15, 2008 10:00 AM

Shape Conversion in Process Engineering

A recent newsgroup post asks for an explanation of the cells that get added to a shape when it is converted using the Process Engineering add-on. The Shape Conversion command in Process Engineering allows you to make any shape work like the built-in Process
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:00 AM

CAD Integration Announcement for Visio "vNext"

This morning at Day 2 of Visio Conference 2008, we announced that the next version of Visio will add support for AutoCAD 2007 DWG and DXF file formats. As mentioned in previous blog posts , this was a major request from Visio customers and partners. General
Posted by Visio Team | 7 Comments
Wednesday, February 06, 2008 2:00 AM

Visio "vNext"

Tuesday more than 300 customers, partners and Visio community members gathered for Day 1 of Visio Conference 2008. Attendees were treated to an impressive array of partner solutions, product demonstrations and information-filled sessions. To top it all
Posted by Visio Team | 5 Comments
Friday, February 01, 2008 12:00 AM

Visio as a Business Process Analysis Tool

Visio had the opportunity to present at Microsoft's SOA & BP conference last November on using Visio as a Business Process Analysis Tool. A video of that presentation is now available for viewing. Mark Nelson from the Visio team describes how Visio
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:00 PM

Images and the Dynamic Grid

A recent newsgroup post described a problem getting the Dynamic Grid feature to work with images. The user inserted pictures into their diagram and wanted the same alignment aids that Visio provides for regular shapes. This can be done with a small modification
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:00 PM

Visio Toolbox Site

Microsoft has significantly updated its Visio product information on the web. Check out the new site at http://www.visiotoolbox.com . You will find articles, training and downloads that provide a wealth of information on Visio 2007. Those that found the
Posted by Visio Team | 1 Comments
Friday, January 11, 2008 12:00 AM

CAD Integration in Visio - Part 2

In the previous post we reviewed the problems users were encountering with the CAD Integration feature set in Visio 2003 and the fixes that were made in Visio 2007. In this post we look at the remaining issues with CAD and Visio. Converting CAD drawings
Posted by Visio Team | 5 Comments
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