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NHL Team Logo Visio Shapes

February 12, 2018 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

If you like hockey or are interested in Visio’s data-linking capabilities, then you’ll be interested in these free shapes, and this free article!

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Filed Under: Data, Shapes Tagged With: Hockey, John Marshall, List Containers, Lists, logos, NHL

Detect Drawing Units in the ShapeSheet

November 19, 2017 By Visio Guy 7 Comments

Detecting the units of a drawing page can be useful for creating reactive SmartShapes that can behave nicely in both Metric or US-unit environments.

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Filed Under: Development, Power User, ShapeSheet, Space Planning Tagged With: Imperial Units, Measured Drawings, Metric Units, US Units

Turning Pages in Visio

December 12, 2016 By Visio Guy 4 Comments

visio-turn-pages-thumbFor small documents, turning pages in Visio is pretty straightforward. But when your file grows to be 30 or 60 pages long (yes, people do this in Visio!), some other techniques will make your Visio-document-navigation life a bit simpler.

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Filed Under: Code, Power User, Visio 2010, Visio 2013, Visio 2016, Visio Essentials

iPad Viewer for Visio by Nektony

August 31, 2016 By Visio Guy 2 Comments

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If you’ve ever been frustrated by trying to open a Visio attachment while browsing e-mails from your iPad on the couch, then you might be interested in this Visio viewer…for the iPad!

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Filed Under: Beyond Visio, CAD, Data, News, Space Planning Tagged With: cloud, iPad, Layers, Shape Data, viewer

New Book: Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016

July 18, 2016 By Visio Guy 1 Comment

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There’s a new book on data visualization with Visio. And it is probably as good as its title is long!

 

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Filed Under: Code, Data, Development, Power User, ShapeSheet, Visio 2016, Visio Essentials Tagged With: Books, Visio Books

Visio Nerd Videos – For Developers!

July 14, 2016 By Visio Guy 3 Comments

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If you’re interested in the deeper workings of Visio, then you’ll be interested in a series of videos that I’ve been in remiss in reporting!

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Filed Under: Code, Data, Development, Power User, Shapes, ShapeSheet, Tools, Video Tagged With: John Goldsmith, Programming, shapeshe, ShapeSheet, ShapeSheet Formulas, ShapeSheet Functions

Truly “No-Glue-To” Shapes

July 12, 2016 By Visio Guy 7 Comments

no-glue-to-thumbSometimes you really need shapes that can’t be connected to. While Visio has settings in the UI for doing this, they don’t fully work. This article will show you the workaround!

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Filed Under: Electrical & Electronic, Power User, Shapes, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Connectors, Glue, Settings, Visio Connectors

UEFA Euro Cup 2016 Visio Diagram

June 10, 2016 By Visio Guy 1 Comment

euro2016-thumbI’ve made a Visio diagram that will help you track the progress of the UEFA European Cup 2016.

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Filed Under: Drawings, Shapes, ShapeSheet, Visio Content Tagged With: Sports, tournament

Word Cloud Area-filling Text Shape

November 25, 2015 By Visio Guy 7 Comments

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The interesting problem of fitting words into arbitrarily-sized rectangular areas has been lurking in the dark corners of my D:\ drive for a while now. Today I decided to do something about it, and offer you a cool SmartShape to create interesting visuals with.

The area-filling text shape lends itself to creating Word Clouds and graphics that use text in a matrix- or tabular style.

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Filed Under: Shapes, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Text, word cloud

USA States Map with Equal-sized States

September 4, 2015 By Visio Guy 2 Comments

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The states in the USA are all over the map when it comes to total area (aka, “size”).

We all love data visualizations on maps, but the wide range of state sizes can distort visual messages.

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Filed Under: Data, Templates, Visio 2010, Visio 2013 Tagged With: Data Graphics, Data Visualization

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