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Presentation on Building Solutions using the Visio 2007 Data API

The Office team has put up video of all of the presentations from the Office Developer Conference held this past spring. At the conference, I presented a Visio 2007 session focusing on building solutions using the new Data APIs. The direct link to the Read More...
Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 6:07 PM by wmorein | 3 Comments

Visio 2007: PivotDiagram Tips and Tricks, part 3

The default PivotDiagram layout is a hierarchy with spacing of 9.5 mm (or 0.375 in) between shapes. This works pretty seamlessly for a lot of data out there, but one of the powerful aspects of the PivotDiagram feature is your control over how your shapes Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 29, 2006 8:24 PM by wmorein | 0 Comments
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Announcing the Visio Customer Council

We're always looking for ways to better understand the needs and concerns of Visio customers. To that end, one of the tools we use is the Visio Customer Council. Council members are uniquely positioned to have their voices heard by the designers and developers Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 5:06 PM by wmorein | 1 Comments
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Visio 2007: More on Customizing Data Graphics: Icon Sets with Images

In the previous two posts on customizing Data Graphics, I covered general customization (using a text callout example) and customizing icon sets . If you are creating icon sets, often you'll want to use existing images rather than trying to figure out Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:21 AM by wmorein | 3 Comments
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Attachment(s): Custom Icon Sets.vsd

Visio 2007: More on Customizing Data Graphic Items: Icon Sets

In my earlier post on Data Graphics customization , I covered how to edit a text Graphic Item. A few people have asked for more information on how to deal specifically with Icon Sets since that is a place where there are most often domain-specific icons Read More...
Posted Friday, July 14, 2006 12:24 PM by wmorein | 5 Comments
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New Office and Visio icons

It looks like the Office Design Group has gone public with the new icons for Office 2007. Visio is the one on the bottom left - we have the same basic flowchart metaphor. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:39 AM by wmorein | 1 Comments
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Visio at the Worldwide Partner Conference

If you are at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2006 in Boston, make sure to head to the Data Visualization session since it will heavily feature Visio solutions. It is happening tomorrow afternoon at 4: IW008 Scale Up Your Business with Data Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 3:45 PM by wmorein | 1 Comments
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Designing the floorplan of a personal 767

I've been following this story with great interest since it first broke in the Wall Street Journal . While I don't currently have a 767, you can never be too prepared. With that in mind, I whipped together a Visio version of the airplane floorplan from Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 2:20 PM by wmorein | 6 Comments
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Attachment(s): 767.vsd

10 Tips for Creating Great Process Flowcharts

Here are some tips for building great flowcharts in Visio. The last three are specific to Visio 2007, but the rest are relevant to any version of Visio. Creating sub-processes and linked processes using hyperlinks. When you have a complex process or one Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 8:30 AM by wmorein | 0 Comments

Visio 2007: PivotDiagram Tips and Tricks, part 2

In the first PivotDiagram tips post , I talked about some of the alternate ways to create a new PivotDiagram. In this post, I’ll cover an alternate way to filter your data. Filtering by Using “Promote” After creating your diagram and hooking up your data Read More...
Posted Monday, July 10, 2006 8:02 AM by wmorein | 1 Comments
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Attachment(s): Animals.xls

Visio Conference 2006 presentations available online

If you didn't get a chance to make it to the Visio Conference we held in January, we've put up audio/visual recordings from all of the sessions at http://www.visioconferencecontent.com/ . There is a lot of great information there, whether you are interested Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 01, 2006 3:34 PM by wmorein | 0 Comments
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