Need Network Shapes? Fill Your Cup at the Visio Cafe!
June 21, 2009 – 9:35 pm | No Comment | 1835 views

Do you want 5000 free Visio network shapes? This article tells where you can get them, along with a Mega List of every single network shape to be found at the source!

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Development

Tips & code for programming Visio & using the ShapeSheet

Maps & Geography

Maps & geography shapes & templates galore!

Network

Shapes & tools for Visio network diagrams.

News

Find out what’s new in the Visio world!

Shapes

Download useful & attractive Visio shapes. For free!

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Draw Tangent Lines in Visio!
July 2, 2009 | 4 Comments | 172 views

snap-to-tangents

While Visio is heavily used for flowcharting, network diagramming, org charting and other connected diagramming tasks, it also has a fair amount of capabilities that overlap the CAD arena.

One of the best-kept secrets in this area is the ability to draw tangent lines between two curves.

Today we’re going to expose the secret and show you how to do it!

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Twitter @WordCloud #Visio
June 30, 2009 | No Comment | 186 views
Twitter @WordCloud #Visio

Tweet, tweet! Twitter is getting REAL BIG. No one is  sure exactly what it is or…why. Attention deficit disorder gone nuts? The best source of at-the-moment trends? Customer data goldmine? Are we turning into chirping …

User Experience Shapes From UserFocus
June 19, 2009 | 4 Comments | 645 views
User Experience Shapes From UserFocus

Learn about this free set of user experience shapes that will help you to illustrate your ux research plan and show the types of deliverables you will produce.

Send All Connectors to Back
June 17, 2009 | No Comment | 318 views
Send All Connectors to Back

I Want You, Dynamic connector!
When I’m creating Visio-based graphical solutions, I frequently run into the situation where I want to send all of the connectors on a page to the back.
There are a number of …

Rate (Your) Network Diagram
June 15, 2009 | 4 Comments | 716 views
Rate (Your) Network Diagram

Sometimes people ask me questions about network diagrams that aren’t so much about Visio as they are about how the diagrams should look.
A lot of people know that they need to create a network diagram, but …

How to Count the Number of Items in a List
May 25, 2009 | No Comment | 550 views
How to Count the Number of Items in a List

I’ve been working on a new multi-shape that you will hopefully find useful for presentations and process documentation. It should be on offer within then next week or two.
As I was building it, I was …

VBA Class Property Generator
May 20, 2009 | No Comment | 721 views
VBA Class Property Generator

Download this VBA code that will help you to quickly generate Get, Let and Set properties for your VBA classes.

Interview With a Visio Guy
May 18, 2009 | 3 Comments | 640 views
Interview With a Visio Guy

Watch a great video about one man’s experiences using Visio and developing visual solutions on top of Visio.

Turn It Up With the NW Airlines Volume Gauge!
May 15, 2009 | 4 Comments | 897 views
Turn It Up With the NW Airlines Volume Gauge!

Download a nifty “volume-control” Visio SmartShape that cleverly packs increments into a compact format to offer higher control resolution with lower visual messiness!

Data Refresh on Open
May 13, 2009 | No Comment | 740 views
Data Refresh on Open

Refresh your Data each and every time you open your Visio 2007 Professional Data-Connected Diagramme

Visio Viewer for Developers
May 11, 2009 | No Comment | 1058 views
Visio Viewer for Developers

Learn about the Visio viewer, its capabilities, and how you can develop solutions that incorporate it as a Visio-viewing component!

Radial Sankey Diagrams
May 8, 2009 | 11 Comments | 1143 views
Radial Sankey Diagrams

I was reading What goes up, must come down! on the Sankey Diagrams blog and it got me thinking about a radial presentation for Sankey diagrams.
Is there a case or need for radially-oriented Sankey diagrams? …

Top Twelve Text Tips
May 6, 2009 | 4 Comments | 2344 views
Top Twelve Text Tips

Learn twelve text-handling techniques for creating Visio SmartShapes with text that behaves well!

Microsoft Office 14 Timeline
May 4, 2009 | 4 Comments | 1294 views
Microsoft Office 14 Timeline

Get vague details on Microsoft’s plans for beta- and release versions of Office 14, or Office 2010, as it will be known, and download a Visio timeline that illustrates the dates.

Happy Pi Day…Sort Of
May 1, 2009 | 2 Comments | 826 views
Happy Pi Day…Sort Of

It’s kind of Pi Day today, so we are celebrating by talking about a variety of circle- and angle-related end-user and shape-developer related topics! Read and learn about all things round and Visio!

Get Visio 2007 Service Pack 2
April 29, 2009 | No Comment | 1355 views
Get Visio 2007 Service Pack 2

Get information about what has been updated and fixed in Service Pack 2 for Visio 2007, and learn where you can get the new bits!

Bonjour, Visio en Français!
April 27, 2009 | 5 Comments | 669 views
Bonjour, Visio en Français!

Michel Laplace has started a new Visio expert site for French speakers. Vous le trouverez ici…

Number Your Pages Visually…Some More
April 24, 2009 | No Comment | 722 views
Number Your Pages Visually…Some More

Saveen Reddy got wind of Run Circles Around Your Text With the Circle-text Title SmartShape and took it a step further.
Using his fancy-schmancy, multi-colored gradient approach to Visio graphics, he created a pretty neat (and …

Analyze Connectivity Between Process Flows
April 22, 2009 | One Comment | 1216 views
Analyze Connectivity Between Process Flows

Learn how Visio shapes are glued together, different types of glue, and how to traverse paths through a Visio process flow diagram using automation and VBA code.

Eight Places to Watch Visio Videos
April 21, 2009 | No Comment | 1065 views
Eight Places to Watch Visio Videos

Find the best places on the web to watch Visio-related content and learn the easy way–by watching Visio videos!

Take Note With the Visio Sticky Note Shape
April 17, 2009 | 4 Comments | 1312 views
Take Note With the Visio Sticky Note Shape

Download a sticky-note Visio smart shape. You can type a message into it, give it a title, and collapse it to save space in your drawing, but still let folks know that there is more to read!

Number Your Pages Visually
April 15, 2009 | 6 Comments | 1069 views
Number Your Pages Visually

It’s nice to let your audience know where they are in a document, and how much further until the end. This is especially true if your Visio document does double-duty as a presentation.
A progress bar-style …

Rack Server Virtualization Add-in
April 14, 2009 | 3 Comments | 2966 views
Rack Server Virtualization Add-in

Learn about a new add-in for Visio 2007 Professional from Microsoft. This Add-In will help you plan your hardware utilization by generating before- and after detailed views of your racks and servers.

Wake Up Your Audience With Who Want’s to Be a Millionaire
April 10, 2009 | One Comment | 1249 views
Wake Up Your Audience With Who Want’s to Be a Millionaire

Everybody knows (and loves?) the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
It has great graphics and an addictive format that you could use to add spice to your PowerPoint presentations.
And since a lot of …

Path Analysis in Visio
April 8, 2009 | 6 Comments | 2676 views
Path Analysis in Visio

Download a Visio file packed with sample VBA code that will help you understand not only connectors and connecting in Visio, but also path analysis as well!

Visio Squircles
April 2, 2009 | 2 Comments | 1602 views
Visio Squircles

Download a Visio shape that resolves the conflict between the straight and the curved, between circle and square. With the Visio Squircle, your diagrams will look modern and retro at the same time!

Get Amazing Results With Hidden Function (April Fool’s)
April 1, 2009 | 6 Comments | 1343 views
Get Amazing Results With Hidden Function (April Fool’s)

The other day, I was poking around my system, opening .dlls and .exes with Notepad to see if anything interesting popped up.
One file buried in Visio’s installation directory hit paydirt: visaflfn.dll