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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
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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
Posted by Visio Team | 3 Comments
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
Tuesday, January 08, 2008 4:00 PM

CAD Integration in Visio - Part 1

Visio has long had the ability to display, import and export CAD drawings stored in the DWG and DXF file formats. If you are unfamiliar with the ways that Visio can work with CAD drawings, please read through this previous post . In Visio 2003 the CAD
Posted by Visio Team | 2 Comments
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:00 PM

Visio 2003 Service Pack 3

Microsoft has released Service Pack 3 for the Visio 2003 product. You can download the pack here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E6B77D9A-0749-41CE-BD1A-9BF73718593C&displaylang=en (If English is not your install language,
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Friday, August 24, 2007 12:00 PM

Automatic Behaviors in Visio

Several people have posted in the newsgroups about Visio moving shapes around unexpectedly - particularly when documents are opened or saved. This random behavior can be infuriating to users. Perhaps more frustrating is that Visio may continue moving
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:00 AM

Data Graphics Tips

One final post about Data Graphics before turning to other topics for a while. We've gotten some great feedback from customers about their usage of Data Graphics. Based on comments and observations of users, there are a few points of confusion that people
Posted by Visio Team | 1 Comments
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:00 AM

New resources for Visio

Our MVP community has been quite busy creating new resouces for Visio. We'd like to highlight a few recent releases here. In response to a newsgroup discussion on Visio's Network Rack shapes. Chris Roth (Visio MVP and former employee) has released a new
Posted by Visio Team | 3 Comments
Friday, March 23, 2007 12:00 AM

Where's my text control handle?

A Visio user posted a question in the newsgroups about the yellow text control handle on connector shapes. Some connectors have a yellow handle and some don't. What's going on? Starting in Visio 2003, the built-in connector shape used by the Connector
Posted by Visio Team | 9 Comments
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