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Visio 2003 Developer’s Survival Pack

I tried to add Subscript and Superscript to the Fonts Ribbon, and it said:

Commands can only be added to Custom Groups.

Why doesn’t Microsoft allow its customers to modify their workflow to make it more efficient for themselves?

Then, while as I was making the interface more efficient for myself, I thought I would take all the Position commands (align [objects] left/center/right/top/bottom/middle) and bring them up to the top of my new ribbon. I use these commands even more than sub/superscript, so avoiding the cumbersome user interface of having to click Position, then navigate down to the option I want, I would be able to just click on the button directly!

Unfortunately, this is also a NO-GO from Microsoft! All the user gets to choose is the top-level Position button and its time-consuming interface.

I think this clunky interface, while powerful, is why it takes me hours to create my drawings in Visio.

I’ll have to try. I did tried searching for ^p^p and replacing with nothing, but it didn’t work. Maybe first replacing with *something* is the key.

Search and Replace (Ctrl-H) “^p^p” with “^p”. If your line consists of a single space, change the first string to “^p ^p”

I learnt this technique while converting old-style text files with a return at thened of every line (no word-wrap!). In this example I would replace “^p^p” with “~~”, replace all remaining “^p” with ” ” (space) and then replace all “~~” with “^p^p” to get a line between each paragraph. No VBA!

Cheers

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