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Word Equation to Visio to SVG

February 1, 2019 By Visio Guy 1 Comment

I ran across a scenario where I needed to get a Word equation into Visio, and have it export to SVG. This is the story of my investigation.

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Filed Under: Beyond Visio, Drawings, Illustration, Wireframes & IA Tagged With: Conversion, Equations, Math, Microsoft Word, SVG, XML

Visio 2D, 3D and Virtual Reality

April 27, 2018 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

You will soon be able to use Visio to create 3D scenes that you can walk through using mixed reality hardware!

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Filed Under: CAD, News, Visio 2016 Tagged With: 2D, 3D, Mixed Reality, Virtual Reality

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

Trumpet Valve Fingerings Visio Shape

January 31, 2018 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

A recent foray into learning a new instrument spurred the development of a Visio SmartShape that can be used to annotate trumpet valve fingerings on sheet music.

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Filed Under: Beyond Visio Tagged With: annotations, Images, Music, trumpet

Visio 2016 Training Videos

January 31, 2018 By Visio Guy 2 Comments

Microsoft has just released a new set of online training videos for Visio 2016. I’ve created detailed outlines of the course material and provided direct links to pages and modules within their website so you can instantly jump to the content you want to digest!

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Filed Under: Flowcharting, Shapes, Video, Visio 2016, Visio Essentials Tagged With: org-charts, organizational charts, Videos

Amazon AWS Visio Shapes

January 31, 2018 By Visio Guy 5 Comments

If you work with Amazon’s AWS services, you’ll likely need to create architecture diagrams to assist in your planning and maintenance. Amazon provides a set of shapes for use with Visio, but I’ve added my touch and provided a new and improved set for you to download!

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Filed Under: Network, Shapes, Visio 2010, Visio 2013, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Amazon, Architecture, AWS, Database

Fuzzy Shadow on Text Oddity

December 20, 2017 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

Visio 2013/16 and newer have added wonderful formatting effects. But how they modify your shapes can be a bit strange. I’ve figured out a few of the odd cases and would like to share my findings with you!

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Filed Under: Illustration, Power User, Shapes, Visio 2013, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Artistic Effects, Effects, Fill Format

Stroke-Dasharray Shape for Visio Custom Line Patterns

October 11, 2017 By Visio Guy 3 Comments

Recent adventures with HTML, SVG and CSS have led me to create a new Visio SmartShape that will help you to easily define dash patterns for custom line patterns!

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Filed Under: Shapes, Visio 2013, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Custom Line Patterns, Line Patterns, SmartShapes

View Visio Files on Android (and Windows Phone)

June 4, 2017 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

If you’ve got an Android or Windows phone, and you receive Visio files via e-mail attachments, there IS a way to view them while you are on the go!

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Filed Under: Beyond Visio, Visio 2013, Visio 2016, Visio Viewer

Visio Circle Arrows 2013

December 29, 2016 By Visio Guy 22 Comments

There’s a new arrows-on-circle Visio SmartShape for you to download. It plays nicely with Visio 2013 and newer versions.

Come on in and check it out!

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Filed Under: Shapes, Visio 2013, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Arrows, arrows on circle, Control Handles, Multi-shapes, Right-Click Actions, SmartShapes

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