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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!

[Read more…] about Draw the Virus with Boolean Operations!

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

Salesforce Schema Builder-style ERD Shapes

March 31, 2020 By Visio Guy 4 Comments

I’ve been working on a modified version of Visio’s built-in ERD shapes. They have a fresh look and streamlined features. I think you’ll like them!

[Read more…] about Salesforce Schema Builder-style ERD Shapes

Filed Under: Data, Power User, Shapes, Templates, Visio 2016, Visio Content Tagged With: Database, Entity Relationship Diagrams, ERD

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

Dynamic Updating Org Charts in Visio!

March 23, 2020 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

I just found a great video that showcases a new feature where Visio organization charts are automatically built and updated within Excel, using Excel data! [Read more…] about Dynamic Updating Org Charts in Visio!

Filed Under: Power User, Video, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Data Visualizer, Excel, Office 365, SharePoint, Visio Online

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!

[Read more…] about Link Fields to Subshape Text

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

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!

[Read more…] about Visio 2016 Training Videos

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

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

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

Thoughts on Surface Dial and Visio

December 14, 2016 By Visio Guy 1 Comment

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Now that Microsoft has the new Surface Dial on offer, your non-mousehand will have something to fiddle with besides Ctrl + Z! What does it all mean?

[Read more…] about Thoughts on Surface Dial and Visio

Filed Under: CAD, News, Power User

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