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How to Publish Visio 2010 Drawings to a SharePoint Site
September 2, 2010 – 5:43 pm | No Comment | 128 views
How to Publish Visio 2010 Drawings to a SharePoint Site

Are you a Visio user?
Is your company using SharePoint Server 2010?
Wonder how you can make them work together?

New Book: Visio 2010 Rules, Validation & Business Process Diagramming
July 19, 2010 – 11:42 am | One Comment | 1361 views
New Book: Visio 2010 Rules, Validation & Business Process Diagramming

Read about David Parker’s new book about Microsoft Visio 2010 Business Process Diagramming and Validation that helps you to create custom rule sets for validating your Visio 2010 Premium-based solutions!

Visualization of Visio 2010 Templates by Edition
June 15, 2010 – 11:53 am | 2 Comments | 2961 views
Visualization of Visio 2010 Templates by Edition

Visualize which templates come with which edition of Visio 2010, thanks to Data Graphics and the Org-chart Wizard!

Visio 2010 Ribbon Commands Mega List
June 10, 2010 – 1:04 pm | 6 Comments | 2949 views
Visio 2010 Ribbon Commands Mega List

Easily search a list of Visio 2010′s 554 ribbon UI customization commands.

Radial Elements Tool
November 5, 2009 – 1:51 pm | 6 Comments | 5952 views
Radial Elements Tool

Download a tool that allows you to create a circular array of custom tick in seconds!

Harrison Clarity. Just the Videos M’am.
September 11, 2009 – 3:41 pm | No Comment | 8866 views
Harrison Clarity. Just the Videos M’am.

Harry Miller, video producer. The guy who filmed: five of the biggest Visio Nerds that ever lived. He’s been busy.
Creating instructional Visio videos. With a 40′s detective theme. Short. Succinct. Cool jazz music. Just the …

Automatic Chevron Process Shape
August 4, 2009 – 5:07 pm | 20 Comments | 11000 views
Automatic Chevron Process Shape

If you need a Visio shape that allows you to quickly create a chain of “chevron” arrows for your management presentations, then you have come to the right place! Our Visio SmartShape is jammed full of smart behaviors that save you a ton of time!

Run For Your Lives! Clippy Is Back!
July 17, 2009 – 5:05 am | 4 Comments | 6080 views
Run For Your Lives! Clippy Is Back!

Your life is hard. You work hard all day. You attend endless meetings. You sit through HR sensitivity training. Life is stressful.
Microsoft Office 2010 is coming soon; SharePoint and Visio are getting the Ribbon. Life …

Automatically Number & Connect Shapes – With Code!
July 13, 2009 – 9:22 am | 7 Comments | 6302 views
Automatically Number & Connect Shapes – With Code!

Connect shapes in numerical-order at the press of a button! Then download the VBA code to see how it’s done!

Don’t Read! Watch Videos of Visio MVPs Instead!
July 8, 2009 – 8:15 pm | 5 Comments | 4095 views
Don’t Read! Watch Videos of Visio MVPs Instead!

Hear what 5 of the biggest Visio Nerds that ever lived have to say about their favorite diagramming app.

Draw Tangent Lines in Visio!
July 2, 2009 – 5:02 am | 4 Comments | 6764 views
Draw Tangent Lines in Visio!

What? Visio has a curve-to-curve tangent tool? Find out how to use it in this exciting video.

Need Network Shapes? Fill Your Cup at the Visio Cafe!
June 21, 2009 – 9:35 pm | 6 Comments | 59939 views
Need Network Shapes? Fill Your Cup at the Visio Cafe!

Could you use 5000 free Visio network shapes in 192 Visio stencils? Find out where you can get ‘em, and search our Mega Table that lists each and every network equipment item!

Interview With a Visio Guy
May 18, 2009 – 7:27 am | 3 Comments | 5067 views
Interview With a Visio Guy

Watch a great video about one man’s experiences using Visio and developing visual solutions on top of Visio.

DIP Switch Shapes Gone Wild!
February 28, 2009 – 9:00 am | No Comment | 7560 views
DIP Switch Shapes Gone Wild!

Recently in the Visio Guy Newsgroups, user Ziorg77 submitted a wonderful Visio SmartShape of a DIP switch, where you could toggle each of the eight switches individually.
This led to a flurry of discussion, and several …

Punish Your Users with (not so) SmartShapes That Misbehave
June 14, 2008 – 4:37 pm | 5 Comments | 6366 views
Punish Your Users with (not so) SmartShapes That Misbehave

Learn how to add smarts to your Visio SmartShapes–and have fun doing it–by looking at mischievous examples of badly behaved, not-so-smart shapes!

European Cup 2008 Auto-Updating Visio Diagram
June 9, 2008 – 1:49 pm | 22 Comments | 11873 views
European Cup 2008 Auto-Updating Visio Diagram

Visio is a natural choice for creating brackets for sports tournaments.
I have seen many elimination-tournament diagrams created in Visio over the years. In fact, just a few years ago, a very nice example was done …

Word Balloon Visio SmartShape
May 29, 2008 – 7:47 am | 12 Comments | 24026 views
Word Balloon Visio SmartShape

For quite some time now, I’ve wanted to create a Visio SmartShape of a proper, oval, comic-style Word Balloon shape.
But calculating the intersection of a triangular callout with the perimeter of an ellipse was …

Virtualization Visualization with Visio
May 27, 2008 – 8:14 am | 10 Comments | 76287 views
Virtualization Visualization with Visio

Whether you are looking to conserve energy, optimize your hardware usage, or rapidly test a wide variety of software configurations, some sort of virtualization is surely in your future.
And if you are a Visio Guy …

“Laser” Shape
May 8, 2008 – 8:21 pm | 7 Comments | 13673 views
“Laser” Shape

Download a scaled Visio SmartShape of a laser show projector. The projection part of this shape is particularly fun. As you resize the projection distance and angle, you’ll get some cool effects!

Apple iPhone Network Shape
March 23, 2008 – 6:23 pm | 19 Comments | 34895 views
Apple iPhone Network Shape

I know, I know, you’re probably thinking what I’m thinking: I’m just not cool enough to be a Mac person…
But that doesn’t mean we have to go without!
Yup! It’s time for another overdrawn Visio Network …

Oblique Connectors For Your 3D Diagrams
October 29, 2007 – 6:53 pm | 24 Comments | 34702 views
Oblique Connectors For Your 3D Diagrams

Get a configurable, oblique connector shape that makes attractive, 3D-looking connections to your 3D-looking network shapes, or other isometric drawings!

Free Visio People Shapes
May 20, 2007 – 2:24 pm | 35 Comments | 71335 views
Free Visio People Shapes

Download some new, nicely-shaded people shapes, with add-on hats to boot! Learn how to find other people-related shapes that come with Visio, and discover the mysteries of Whale Boy!

Map of World
April 23, 2007 – 1:46 am | 42 Comments | 39697 views
Map of World

Download a map of the World, with nicely formatted and labeled shapes.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Stencil
December 28, 2006 – 7:00 am | 3 Comments | 45221 views
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Stencil

Microsoft has published a brand-spanking-new set of Visio shapes for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. You can download the stencil for free from Microsoft’s web-site and immediately get to work planning your next Exchange deployment. You’ll …

Audio Visual Components Shapes
December 15, 2006 – 7:08 am | 16 Comments | 45069 views
Audio Visual Components Shapes

Download a Visio stencil full of cool av connector- and terminal-shapes for creating audio-visual patch panels.

Visio 2007 Developer Resources
November 3, 2006 – 10:33 am | 12 Comments | 13771 views
Visio 2007 Developer Resources

Get a jump on your next generation of Visio-based solutions by perusing these Visio 2007 developer resources!

Circular Multi-arrows
October 9, 2006 – 10:32 am | 63 Comments | 55749 views
Circular Multi-arrows

Download improved versions of Visio’s Circular Multi-arrow shape, that allow for up to 20 sub-arrows, and offer some neat coloration features.