You can zoom way in on your metafile shape, then crop the edges using the Crop tool on the Picture toolbar.

You can also tweak the cells in the ShapeSheet section: Foreign Image Info, but this takes a bit of experimenting before it is clear what needs to be done.

As for connection point stuff, check out this article and see if it makes any sense, first:

Connection Point Directions and Types

- Chris

Re: WordPress and code, I don’t have a plug-in. The theme I use has a “preformatted” style that seems to help.

What I’ve done before is to copy code from Visual Studio 2006 into Word. Word seems to preserve the font, and the green, blue, black that aids readability.

Then I paste it into WordPress (can’t remember if I use the Word-stripper, or just paste direct). At any rate, the html is full of span and style tags, which is probably sloppy and bad. It doesn’t always seem to work so well, but when it does work it’s pretty nice.

Visio question: I have changed my text to a metafile picture and thus my alignment box gets bigger than my shape. I have only found one way to fix that and that is by using “LockCalcWH=1″ then resizing/stretching everything to fit the locked alignment box. The unfortunate part is if I need to add something to the group inside the group with the LockCalcWH set, then I can’t. Any way around that? Also some of the items in my group have arcs they get distorted. I can’t figure out how to do a 2-D shape with 4 alignment points that snap/glue to rack/cabinets (Network->Rack-mounted Equipment). Is there a way to do that?

WordPress question: what plugin are you using to post code? The plugins I have tried don’t seem to solve the issues with copy paste and getting control/html conversion character in there.