Comments on: Take Note With the Visio Sticky Note Shape

By: Visio Nube

Visio Nube — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:55:50 +0000

Dear VisGuy,
Let me start with proclaiming this is excellent! far better than visio’s native comment ability. I was wondering if there was a way to change the color of the sticky itself. Currently it’s yellow, though I am faced with a situation we had multi-colored physical sticky’s put on the map and now I have to digitize. I looked at the shapesheet and wasn’t able to adjust the fill. I figured it would be FillForegnd under Fill Format. I attempted any other variable (ie. 1 to a 2 or 3). If you could help, I would be very greatfull!
Thanks

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:50:16 +0000

Hi Bob,

You’ll have to go into the ShapeSheet (Window > Show ShapeSheet) for the shape and change two formulas near the top.

Width = GUARD(MAX(1.25 in,TEXTWIDTH(TheText)))
Height = GUARD(MAX(1.25 in,TEXTHEIGHT(TheText,Width)))

Change numbers 1.25 to 0.75 or 0.5 or something. The values are inches.

By: Bob Heerkens

Bob Heerkens — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:50:07 +0000

Dear VisGuy,

Is it possible that the size can be adjusted of the notes icon left when minimized.

For my flowcharts this icon is still too big.

Thanks Bob

By: Amite

Amite — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:30:57 +0000

Quite interesting

By: Art Braune

Art Braune — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:40:01 +0000

While Visio was not designed to do text-flow – will the current shape-sheet commands allow one to emulate something similar? Or is this a dead-end?

BTW: I still have Aldus Pagemaker disks in my garage.

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:52:02 +0000

Hi Art,

Well, the ShapeSheet has various string-manipulation functions, such as LEFT, RIGHT, MID, LEN, REPLACE, SUBSTITUTE, etc. So you can break stuff up. The problem is with font-metrics. How do you know when it’s time to break the string up? Visio is no ~~Aldus Pagemaker~~ Adobe InDesign. It was never designed to do text-flow.

Maybe now that computers are so fast and capable, stuff like this should start to be more commonplace…even standard?

By: Art Braune

Art Braune — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:03:00 +0000

Very interesting…

Now – if this can be done – can you also replicate the behavior of linked text boxes (like in InDesign)? Where you define the size of the text boxes, link them, and then the text (once entered) will flow from one text box to another (even if they are on different pages)?

I can elaborate more on this if you need…