Visio Guy

Sure you can import bitmaps and images for use as Visio shapes. But imports are always rectangular, and they can have unappealing or distracting backgrounds that you'd rather not look at. While Visio doesn't have a masking capability or an irregular-cropping feature, there is a technique that will allow you to get the same effect!

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If you just went out and bought yourself a color laser printer, like I did, then you might be itching to create a bunch of CD Jewel Cases in living color!

And since you're already a Visio pro, there's no sense in installing and learning another application, because you can download a Visio CD Jewel Case Template right here!

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So you've created beautiful graphics in Visio, and you know how to add phantasmal ShapeSheet smarts to your shapes, now its time for you to make it all disappear! I often get asked how to toggle the visibility of various elements of Visio drawings, and I usually offer up one of many solutions. But I don't think that those many solutions have ever been cataloged in a single place. Until, of course, now...

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