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Get the Super-smart Visio Divided Box Shape!

Submitted by Visio Guy on November 25, 2009 – 5:43 am | | 4630 views 3 Comments

Auto Height

This shape does its best to make sure your text is contained within neat little boxes. If you resize the shape, it will grow (if necessary) to accommodate your text. Here we can see that as we make a box narrower, the height increases.

Note how the Title tries to stay the same height, until it just can’t anymore, and grows in the third example:

shape-grows-for-text

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3 Comments »

  • Yacine says:

    Well done

  • omz13 says:

    How did you implement the number bubble positioning? I’m working on a shape and need to do something similar, i.e. have something that can be positioned in a finite set of places.

  • Visio Guy says:

    Hi OMZ,

    Some hints for the bubble positioning: the PinX and PinY of the bubble sub-shape are linked to a control handle in the group. The control handle has the BOUND function in it’s X and Y position cells.

    If you use Visio 2007 and have applied Data Graphics, you’ll notice that they can be repositioned using a control handle too. You can look at the formulas, and the help for BOUND to get an idea for how it all works.

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