Comments on: Work Faster With Our Top Visio Keyboard Shortcuts

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:49:52 +0000

You say
“Ok, Visio has an Auto-save feature. But now that you have learned all these shortcuts, you’ll be working so fast, you’ll want to save more often then Microsoft deems necessary. Plus some of you probably turn Auto-save off because it can be annoying”

I cant find this functionality anywhere. Can you elaborate?

Thank you

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:15:03 +0000

How to “knudge” a wall in smaller increments?
Select the wall, Shift Right Arrow
It seems to move it in minimum 1/4inch or even 1/16″ but I can never get it to stop on EVEN 4ft-9″.
It is always 4′-9 1/16 of 4-8 15/16 ?
Any way to adjust the Shift+arrow key to allow an even dimension?

By: Visio Guy » Double-headed Cross Functional Flowchart

Visio Guy » Double-headed Cross Functional Flowchart — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:39:30 +0000

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By: Visio Guy » Visio Tutorial: Advanced Fill Effects

Visio Guy » Visio Tutorial: Advanced Fill Effects — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:31:23 +0000

[...] arrange the arrow to be on top, the rectangle to be in the middle, and the spectrum to be behind. Keyboard shortcuts of Ctrl+Shift+B (send to back) and Ctrl+Shift+F (bring to front) will help you to do this more [...]

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:17:19 +0000

Thank you!!

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:21:13 +0000

Just got reminded of one from Twitter: F4 is really great for "repeating the last action". So you can Ctrl+Drag a copy of a shape, then hit F4 F4 F4 F4 to get four more copies at the same spacing as your first drag! Thanks @lauraph!

By: Whoila Blog » Blog Archive » Some useful shortcuts for moving around in Visio

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:43:37 +0000

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By: Visio Guy » Blog Archive » Importing Images as Backgrounds for Tracing

Visio Guy » Blog Archive » Importing Images as Backgrounds for Tracing — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:39:57 +0000

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By: Great keyboard shortcuts from the Visio Guy « Getting IT Right

Great keyboard shortcuts from the Visio Guy « Getting IT Right — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:59:19 +0000

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By: Visio Guy » Blog Archive » Smart Frames and Bezels #1

Visio Guy » Blog Archive » Smart Frames and Bezels #1 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:52:33 +0000

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By: Adam Vero

Adam Vero — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:24:35 +0000

As a MOS:Master and trainer I always encourage people to learn some simple shortcuts to save tons of time (and often to reduce errors). My PowerPoint shortcut keys list is available here (pdf file which you are free to download for your own use but not to redistribute):
http://www.meteorit.co.uk/documents/Microsoft_PowerPoint_Shortcut_keys_sample.pdf

One shortcut that I find very useful in both Visio and PowerPoint is CTRL-D to duplicate a selection. I hate that if I want multiple copies and use CTRL-V,V,V… to paste several times, they are all on top of one another, whereas CTRL-D duplicates at a small offset to the right and down from the original or subsequent duplicate in a nicely spaced diagonal line.
In PowerPoint it is even more sophisticated: if you duplicate an object then move the duplicate and hit CTRL-D again (without deselecting the new duplicate) then the subsequent dupes have the same offset as from the original to the first one – perfect for an evenly spaced row of boxes, and would be ideal for Visio too (eg desks arranged at a set interval along a wall without moving them all individually). (Oddly enough, PowerPoint also does perfect centre-sizing by holding CTRL, unlike Visio as you mention in your other article. Why does PP have the upper hand on some of these features, I wonder?)

I too am an “ALT” user, F,S; F,A; F,P and F,V just come naturally. Shame that some of these combinations and others such as Excel’s ALT-E,S,V no longer work in 2007.

Thanks for this very helpful post, a few useful and not widely known combinations here for the unusual animal that is Visio.
Incidentally, the shortcut using CTRL-SHIFT and mouse keys to zoom in only doubles/halves below 400% – if the resulting zoom is above that it goes in steps of 200% instead (*in 2007 at least, I no longer have an older install here to test). So you can go from 199 to 398 to 598, or from 201 to 401 to 601.

By: Visio Guy » Blog Archive » Importing Images as Backgrounds for Scaled Drawings

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:07:07 +0000

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By: Visio Guy » Blog Archive » Sewing Patterns With Visio

Visio Guy » Blog Archive » Sewing Patterns With Visio — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:22:17 +0000

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By: Visio Guy » Blog Archive » Center-sizing Smart Shapes

Visio Guy » Blog Archive » Center-sizing Smart Shapes — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:01:36 +0000

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By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:33:05 +0000

Bgw,

You might also be interested in this article: Combo Box Table of Contents

It shows you how to use code to create a drop-down combo box that helps you to navigate mutli-page drawings. It requires VBA code in your drawing, but might nevertheless be useful for your projects.

- Chris