Copy from Word or PowerPoint? I don’t know that Visio supports WordArt creation in the first place–can’t remember 100%. Or perhaps you haven’t installed it? It’s probably some sort of “shared Office component”.

But I’m pretty sure I create WordArt object in other apps, then paste them into Visio as metafiles.

Phew!

I haven’t done much with SharePoint…yet. Perhaps folks over on my forum might be more responsive to your question.

http://www.visguy.com/vgforum

Unfortunately, it’s a custom behavior build into specific flowchart shapes, and isn’t some sort of generic Visio feature that can be applied at the click of a button.

As is usually the answer with Visio, someone could write a utility in VB/VBA or C# that would insert this behavior into selected Visio shapes. But it’s not super-straightforward.

Always nice to have a visit from the author of:

Visio 2003 Developer’s Survival Pack

Here’s a rough snippet of how you change the height of a Visio shape, in C#:

// visApp is a Visio Application object

// Get a selected shape:
Vis.Shape shp = visApp.ActiveWindow.Selection[1];

// Set the value of the height cell in inches:
shp.Cells["Height"].ResultIU = 3.5; // ie: “2U”

Hope that gets you started.

Thanks.
Dave

Took me a while, but I found it!

View Tab
> Macros > Add-Ons > Visio Extras > Number Shapes

Are you trying to print comments via Insert > Shape Screen Tip or comments via the Review/Markup features?

I’m not really sure what is happening, but I did find an article that deals with a similar topic:

An error (1415) occurred during the action Open Object
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829776/en-us

This relates to Visio 2003 and Excel, but perhaps it will give you some clues.

Here’s more detailed info from Visio Expert JuneTheSecond:

http://www.office-forums.com/error-1415-occurred-during-action-open-object-t1618867.html

If you’re talking about this connector–the download that accompanies this article–then yes.

As it says in the article, just right-click and choose “Text Orientation > Position by Control Handle”. You can then move the control handle to the center of the connector – just pull on the yellow diamond handle.

For regular Visio connectors, the control handle is always there.

In either case, you don’t need to use the Text or Text Block tools. The control handles save you the trouble!