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Draw the Virus with Boolean Operations!

April 16, 2020 By Visio Guy 1 Comment

I wanted to share some tips about using Visio’s Boolean operations, and came up with this topical subject to do it!

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Filed Under: Development, Illustration, Power User, Shapes, ShapeSheet, Visio 2016 Tagged With: boolean, Combining, Combining Shapes, Creating Shapes, Drawing Shapes, fragment, Join, Union Shapes

Ordered List Shapes

March 30, 2020 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

I frequently have the need to get text into separate boxes in Visio. And often I need those boxes to have some sort of incremented series, such as 1, 2, 3, or A, B, C. I’ve built some SmartShapes to help ease my pain, and I’m sharing them with you today!

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Filed Under: Illustration, Shapes, ShapeSheet, Templates, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Download, free, Increment, Series, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes

Extreme Scales in Visio

March 27, 2020 By Visio Guy 3 Comments

Since we’re all stuck inside, I recently decided to go exploring. No, not outside, but to the outer reaches of Visio scaled drawings!

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Filed Under: Development, Power User, Shapes, ShapeSheet, Space Planning, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Measured Drawings, Scale

Constrain Control Handle to Circle

November 7, 2018 By Visio Guy 6 Comments

If you’ve ever needed to constrain a Viso SmartShape’s control handle to a circle or other curve, then you’ve finally found the right article!

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Filed Under: Development, Power User, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Control Handles, Controls, Formulas, SETATREF, SETATREFEXPR, ShapeSheet Formulas, ShapeSheet Functions

Link Fields to Subshape Text

February 14, 2018 By Visio Guy 18 Comments

Many Visio users discover how to insert fields into the text of Visio shapes to display data contained in Shape Data fields. But they become frustrated when they add multiple text blocks to grouped shapes, as the process becomes more tricky. Let’s take a look at how to do this!

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Filed Under: Power User, ShapeSheet, Visio 2010, Visio 2013, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Data Graphics, Insert Field, Text

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

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

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