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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
Posted by Visio Team | 1 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
Posted by Visio Team | 0 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
Attachment(s): TextContolHandle.vsd
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 12:00 PM

Introducing the Bubble Chart

A Bubble Chart is a diagram that presents multi-dimensional data in a graphical form. Each data field is tied to a particular visualization. Most often data controls the Size and Position of elements in the chart. Thus the diagrams often resemble a bunch
Posted by Visio Team | 4 Comments
Attachment(s): BubbleChart.vss
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:00 AM

Working with ResizeMode

In this post, we take a break from Visio 2007 information and explore a peculiar shape design issue. If you have worked with Groups in Visio, you have probably encountered a situation where the shapes inside of a group just don't behave properly during
Posted by Visio Team | 1 Comments
Friday, January 05, 2007 12:00 AM

Remove Hidden Information

In a previous post we discussed the fact that a Visio document can become bloated over time by accumulating masters, styles, layers, fonts and colors that are no longer used in the diagram. Often the file size impact is minimal, but not always. Visio
Posted by Visio Team | 0 Comments
Tuesday, January 02, 2007 12:00 AM

Customizing Data Graphics

One of the new features in Visio 2007 Professional is Data Graphics - the ability to display data on shapes in rich, visual ways. Many of you have already experimented with this feature and are looking for ways to create custom visualizations. There is
Posted by Visio Team | 13 Comments
Friday, December 01, 2006 3:00 PM

Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Released

Yesterday Visio 2007 was made available to business customers along with the rest of the 2007 Office System. Retail availability for Visio 2007 will be January 30, 2007. What’s so great about Visio 2007? Our primary investment focuses on visualizing business
Posted by Visio Team | 3 Comments
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 | 5 Comments
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
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
Posted by Visio Team | 4 Comments
Attachment(s): DrawingAnalyzer.vsd
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, June 27, 2006 12:00 AM

Going Off the Page

In an ideal world every business process would each fit on a single page. Users have employed a variety of techniques to squeeze more information into a finite space. Ultimately some business process diagrams must span across more than one page. To maintain
Posted by Visio Team | 8 Comments
Friday, June 09, 2006 12:00 AM

Retooling for Success

This is the fifth topic in a series discussing the essential features that make up the Visio application. Essential Feature: Drawing Tools Visio bills itself as a diagramming application, and Drag & Drop is the core feature that makes Visio easy to
Posted by Visio Team | 1 Comments
 
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