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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?

Sample Chapter for Rules & Validation Book
July 21, 2010 – 7:20 am | 2 Comments | 2192 views
Sample Chapter for Rules & Validation Book

You might have heard about David Parker’s new book about Visio 2010 Premium’s Rules and Validation for process diagramming.
We’ve just discovered that there’s a free chapter available online, so you can kick the tires before …

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!

SharePoint 2010, PowerPivot, Visio 2010 & Real Estate
July 12, 2010 – 7:07 am | No Comment | 1014 views
SharePoint 2010, PowerPivot, Visio 2010 & Real Estate

There’s a lot of buzz lately about Visio Services for SharePoint 2010.
It looks like it’s appeared on the Real Estate industry’s radar, as they seek to use tools to make their business more efficient.

Visio 2010 Flowchart Shapes Get Smarter
July 1, 2010 – 1:53 pm | No Comment | 1868 views
Visio 2010 Flowchart Shapes Get Smarter

Learn how Visio 2010′s flowchart shapes have gotten smarter and save you work!

World Cup 2010 in Visio…and SharePoint!
June 28, 2010 – 11:01 am | One Comment | 1580 views
World Cup 2010 in Visio…and SharePoint!

See a neat, visual example of Visio 2010, Visio Services and SharePoint 2010 at work.

Visio 2010 Backstage Options Mega List
June 28, 2010 – 9:25 am | No Comment | 1424 views
Visio 2010 Backstage Options Mega List

Find the Visio 2010 setting or option that you need with our searchable mega list of all items in the Backstage options area!

Menus to Ribbons: Find Commands in Office 2010!
June 23, 2010 – 1:11 pm | 2 Comments | 1482 views
Menus to Ribbons: Find Commands in Office 2010!

Get resources for translating old Visio and Office menu commands to Office 2010 ribbons.

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.

Printing Options Gone Mad!
June 9, 2010 – 1:52 pm | 9 Comments | 1713 views
Printing Options Gone Mad!

Get a quick overview of all the dialog boxes associated with printing in Visio.

Sci-fi Movie Quotes Visualized
May 27, 2010 – 9:48 am | 2 Comments | 2127 views
Sci-fi Movie Quotes Visualized

Nathan over at FlowingData has been wasting time visualizing quotes from Sci-fi flicks.
It’s not his fault. The people at Sci Fi Wire gave him the bug.
Now I’m infected.

Visio 2010 Premium, Pro & Standard Add-ons List
May 5, 2010 – 10:02 am | One Comment | 4527 views
Visio 2010 Premium, Pro & Standard Add-ons List

See an extensive list of all the Visio add-ons that ship with each particular edition of Visio 2010: Premium, Pro or Standard.

Download the New Visio 2010 SDK!
May 1, 2010 – 4:03 pm | 2 Comments | 2923 views
Download the New Visio 2010 SDK!

If you’re a Visio developer, then Christmas has arrived! The Visio 2010 Software Development Kit has just been made available as a free download from Microsoft.com.

Text Along a Connector’s Path in Microsoft Visio 2010
February 9, 2010 – 8:46 am | 18 Comments | 5991 views
Text Along a Connector’s Path in Microsoft Visio 2010

A feature lacking in Visio, like for-EVER, is the ability to align text along a connector’s path.
Now, Visio 2010′s new ShapeSheet functions and capabilities finally deliver.
Today we’ll show-off the cool new connector that I’ve developed …

Understanding Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Professional Pivot Diagrams
November 17, 2009 – 5:59 pm | No Comment | 5939 views
Understanding Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Professional Pivot Diagrams

If you’ve ever created pivot tables in Excel, then you’ll want to see how you can create Pivot Diagrams in Visio 2007 Professional.
Visio lets you drill in and roll up the data to understand structure …

Visio 2010 Beta: Sign Up Now!
November 4, 2009 – 9:28 am | 2 Comments | 3619 views
Visio 2010 Beta: Sign Up Now!

Register, Dave.
Dave, won’t you register?
Please register, Dave.
Dave, I think it’s time for you to register.
I think it would be best, Dave, if you would register for the Visio 2010 Beta.
Note: the beta period for …

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 …

Visio 2010 SharePoint Workflows
August 10, 2009 – 8:38 pm | 6 Comments | 12801 views
Visio 2010 SharePoint Workflows

Visio 2010 includes a new template for Microsoft SharePoint Workflows. See what they look like, and find out what’s going on behind the scenes!

Visio 2010 Master Icons Get a Facelift!
August 6, 2009 – 4:44 am | 9 Comments | 9095 views
Visio 2010 Master Icons Get a Facelift!

The end of an age of terror is nigh!
Visio 2010 creates a live preview of your master shapes so you don’t have to fiddle and futz around. You don’t have to waste time and effort …

Visio 2010 Live Preview – Formatting & Themes
July 28, 2009 – 10:18 pm | 4 Comments | 4753 views
Visio 2010 Live Preview – Formatting & Themes

See how Visio 2010 lets you preview formatting changes LIVE! See shapes change color and text change size and font family as your mouse hovers over options!

Visio 2010 Live Preview for Layout – Cool, Smooth Animations
July 27, 2009 – 1:00 pm | No Comment | 4964 views
Visio 2010 Live Preview for Layout – Cool, Smooth Animations

See how Visio 2010 does layout by easing your shapes into new positions with smooth, creamy animation!

Top 10 Visio Things That Have Nothing To Do With Visio
July 24, 2009 – 4:33 am | 5 Comments | 5528 views
Top 10 Visio Things That Have Nothing To Do With Visio

Visio isn’t just Visio, you know?

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 …

Visio Services and SharePoint 2010
July 14, 2009 – 1:31 pm | 2 Comments | 10266 views
Visio Services and SharePoint 2010

Office 2010 betas are starting to hit customers hands (one way or another) and the buzz about Microsoft’s next big release is starting to pick up.
I just watched a video that presented an overview of …

Top Visio Guy Posts
July 9, 2009 – 9:34 pm | One Comment | 3969 views
Top Visio Guy Posts

Find out which articles other Visio Guy readers have been reading.

Twitter @WordCloud #Visio
June 30, 2009 – 9:04 am | No Comment | 16625 views
Twitter @WordCloud #Visio

We want word clouds too! Here’s a first step towards getting them in Visio.

Data Refresh on Open
May 13, 2009 – 6:56 am | 9 Comments | 6419 views
Data Refresh on Open

Refresh your Data each and every time you open your Visio 2007 Professional Data-Connected Diagramme

Visio Viewer for Developers
May 11, 2009 – 9:41 am | 2 Comments | 10969 views
Visio Viewer for Developers

Use the free Visio Viewer to look at Visio files…or as a control in your own custom application.

Get Amazing Results With Hidden Function (April Fool’s)
April 1, 2009 – 6:00 am | 6 Comments | 3994 views
Get Amazing Results With Hidden Function (April Fool’s)

The other day, I was poking around my system, opening .dlls and .exes with Notepad to see if anything interesting popped up.
One file buried in Visio’s installation directory hit paydirt: visaflfn.dll

Trilogy-meter Data Graphics Part III
February 25, 2009 – 2:00 pm | 5 Comments | 5193 views
Trilogy-meter Data Graphics Part III

Today, we continue with the movie-trilogy theme, but concentrate on advanced tips for importing and working with multiple shapes automatically.
This is the third and final piece in our trilogy of articles on Visio data graphics …

Flip the Switch, Feed the Creature
January 22, 2009 – 6:16 am | 4 Comments | 5052 views
Flip the Switch, Feed the Creature

Learn about conditional formatting of Visio SmartShapes, and enjoy an ancient treat from the dusty, musty Visio archives!