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Download this interactive NCAA Final Four Visio bracket and track your favorite teams as they rise or fall in this year’s March madness!
Learn a ShapeSheet trick that lets you convert Visio shape text to meaningful numbers and quantities, and build a calculator that accepts free-form text as input.
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 …
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 …
Today we’re going to talk about adorning Visio shapes with data graphics, and the extreme flexibility that Visio data graphics offer.
This is slightly different than what we discussed previously in Trilogy-meter Data Graphics Part I. …
Learn how to create a bar-graph Visio shape which visually responds to data. Once you’ve built this SmartShape, we’ll then show you how to link it to external data imported from Excel!
Learn how to create clean & tidy Visio shapes from .png images that you get from the web! You’ll learn how to remove background clutter from the images so that your images look more like genuine Visio shapes!
I think the time is overdue for another “vanity” Visio network shape.
And since Amazon.com has been making a lot of noise lately about its new Kindle 2 book reader, I’ve been inspired to oblige.
This version …
Learn about a free Visio Breadcrumb Shape that is feature-packed, fun to use, and will speed up your web-site designs!
Learn how to create Visio title block shapes with field labels and values, all neatly arranged using intelligent smart tab stops.
Learn about conditional formatting of Visio SmartShapes, and enjoy an ancient treat from the dusty, musty Visio archives!
Download classic and glitzy versions of the Pittsburgh Steelers classic logo, in Visio format.
Download and learn with this Visio file and SmartShape that relate to today’s momentous US Presidential inauguration!
Download a Visio SmartShape that allows you to mask/clip your drawings and diagrams. You can temporarily highlight just a particular portion of the drawing without being distracted by the rest of the details.
Learn to create a Visio title block shape that has built-in fields which display information about your Visio document.
Learn about an exceptional Visio SmartShape: a shape that allows you to define your own Multi-shape. With the Configurable Stickman, you can define up to five different poses that can then be quickly recalled with the click of a mouse!
Learn about Visio Multi-shapes, where to find them, how to use them, and how they can save you time!
Make your text stand out with a ShapeSheet formula that chooses a contrasting text-color, based on the fill color of your shape.
Create more intelligent title block shapes by inserting fields into the text of your Visio shapes that automatically link to information about the document! Your title blocks will be smarter, your drawings completed more quickly, and you’ll spend less time re-keying information!
Download a set of 30 faces and hats that you can glue to Visio people shapes and add life to your Visio drawings!
When you Save As Web with Visio, you create a subdirectory full of small files, just begging to be modified. This article points you to resources that will help you to understand and work with those files so that you can get Save As Web to do what you really want it to do.
Learn about the benefits of Visio SmartShapes, the power of the ShapeSheet, and how a few parameterized Visio shapes can replace a whole set of “dumb” clip-art symbols!
Learn a handy tip for adding multiple layers to a Visio page or Visio shape in one, quick, easy operation!
Download this free hexagonal pattern for Visio, and learn about creating your own Visio custom fill patterns.
Create charts and graphs that have a hand-drawn look using this interesting set of Visio SmartShapes!
Lighten-up and simplify your network presentations with Visio diagrams that use these Crayon Network shapes. You’ll get a laugh from your audience, and diffuse the tension that often accompanies complicated, technical subjects!
Learn how to add realistic effects to your Visio SmartShapes using innovative shadowing techniques and custom line patterns!
Learn about the benefits of Visio’s Developer Mode, how it will help you work more efficiently, and how it will solve some mysteries that you might have encountered with Visio 2007.
In our last article on smart frames, we built a SmartShape that maintained a constant border-thickness, no matter the size of the shape.
It was a fairly simple frame, it got the job done, but it …
Give your Visio diagrams that 80′s arcade look and feel that they’ve been yearning for.
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