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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 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
Posted by Visio Team | 0 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
Posted by Visio Team | 3 Comments
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
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
Tuesday, March 06, 2007 12:00 AM

Custom Formulas in Data Graphics

Judging from the page view statistics on the blog, Data Graphics is a topic of interest to a number of people. For those interest in the previous post on building custom data graphics, look here . In this post we’ll look at another way to get more out
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
Friday, January 26, 2007 12:00 AM

Insert Text Box

Every once in a while a new feature idea comes along that is so unique and compelling that it revolutionizes the way people work. Insert Text Box is not such a feature. Adding text to a diagram is nothing new in Visio. However, usability studies have
Posted by Visio Team | 3 Comments
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:00 AM

Menu Changes in Visio 2007

A new release of Visio means changes both large and small to the application. The menu system has a number of changes in it. There are some new additions such as Remove Hidden Information , Publish to PDF / XPS and the Data menu. This post focuses on
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
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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
 
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