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Friday, October 09, 2009 12:02 PM

Live Rendering Shapes in Visio 2010

For several releases Visio has enhanced the appearance of shapes in diagrams by adding isometric projections or themes with gradients and shadows.  All the while, their appearance in the Shapes Window has been unchanged.  The 32x32 pixel icons
Posted by Visio Team | 3 Comments
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
Posted by Visio Team | 4 Comments
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, September 14, 2007 12:00 AM

Publishing Visio 2007 Solutions

Saul Candib, our technical writer for Visio, has posted an excellent article on MSDN explaining how to publish Visio 2007 solutions. In this context "solutions" refers to the add-ons, templates, stencils and/or help files that you have created and want
Posted by Visio Team | 0 Comments
Friday, July 20, 2007 12:00 AM

Make Your Own Data Graphic – Icon Sets

This is the third and final post in a series demonstrating how you can create data graphic callout shapes for use in Visio 2007 Professional. The first post discussed Text Callouts . Data Bars were described in the second post. There is also an article
Posted by Visio Team | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): Icon Set Sample 2.vsd
Friday, June 01, 2007 6:00 PM

Make Your Own Data Graphic – Data Bars

This is the second post in a series demonstrating how you can create data graphic callout shapes for use in Visio 2007 Professional. The first post discussed Text Callouts . There is also an article on MSDN that covers the full spectrum of customization
Posted by Visio Team | 4 Comments
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 12:00 PM

Make Your Own Data Graphic - Text Callouts

Data Graphics is a great new feature in Visio 2007 Professional for displaying data on your shapes. One key to the feature's popularity is that you can make or customize your own data graphic callout shapes. There is an article posted on MSDN that covers
Posted by Visio Team | 5 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
Friday, February 16, 2007 12:00 AM

Make Your Own Bubble Chart, part 3

This post is part of a series examining Bubble Chart diagrams. We are building a Bubble Chart stencil from scratch to make diagram creation easy for the user. You can get the completed stencil from the first post in the series. In the previous post ,
Posted by Visio Team | 1 Comments
Tuesday, February 13, 2007 12:00 AM

Make Your Own Bubble Chart, part 2

This post is part of a series examining Bubble Chart diagrams. We are building a Bubble Chart stencil from scratch to make diagram creation easy for the user. You can get the completed stencil from the first post in the series. In the previous post ,
Posted by Visio Team | 1 Comments
Friday, February 09, 2007 12:00 AM

Make Your Own Bubble Chart, part 1

In the previous post we introduced the Bubble Chart diagram and demonstrated a quick way to create one using the BubbleChart.vss stencil. This stencil was custom-built for the blog, so grab the file attachment from the previous post. Now we build the
Posted by Visio Team | 1 Comments
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
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