Text Along a Connector’s Path in Microsoft Visio 2010
February 9, 2010 – 8:46 am | One Comment | 1298 views

A feature lacking in Visio, like for-EVER, is the ability to align text along a connector’s path.
Now, Visio 2010’s new ShapeSheet functions and capabilities finally deliver.
Today we’ll show-off the cool new connector that I’ve developed …

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Take Note With the Visio Sticky Note Shape
April 17, 2009 – 6:36 am | 5 Comments | 3998 views
Take Note With the Visio Sticky Note Shape

Stick it to your Visio diagrams with this Post-it note SmartShape that you can show and hide at will.

Center-sizing Smart Shapes
April 15, 2008 – 6:01 am | 4 Comments | 10350 views
Center-sizing Smart Shapes

Visio has tons of keyboard shortcuts, including modifiers for constraining the resizing and moving of shapes. For instance, with the Shift key depressed, you can constrain a shape to move only vertically or horizontally. Neat-o!
But …

Do You Know Your Elements? A Visio Periodic Table
February 23, 2008 – 12:38 am | 3 Comments | 13822 views
Do You Know Your Elements? A Visio Periodic Table

This Visio Periodic Table of the Elements offers interactivity by storing information about each element in Shape Data fields. Right-clicking each shape will also take you to the Wikipedia article for the corresponding chemical element!

Pixel Unit Dimension Line Shape
February 17, 2008 – 9:26 pm | 2 Comments | 10035 views
Pixel Unit Dimension Line Shape

Download a Visio dimension line shape that let’s you measure your web-layout, wireframe shapes with a pixel ruler! A must-have for Information Architects who use Visio for their layouts and storyboards!

Lorem Ipsum – Visio IA Text Placeholder Shape
February 11, 2008 – 7:13 am | No Comment | 6766 views
Lorem Ipsum – Visio IA Text Placeholder Shape

Spruce up your Information Architecture, Storyboarding, and Wireframe designs with the Visio SmartShape that automatically repeats a text-string of your choosing. Easily test the look of your text-layout by quickly filling regions with “dummy text” blocks.

Month Math
July 10, 2007 – 3:14 am | 4 Comments | 3922 views
Month Math

If you are doing date-related calculations in Visio’s ShapeSheet, you may occasionally want to add months to dates. Read this article to find out how!

Create Visio Flowcharts Programmatically
September 13, 2006 – 3:05 am | 27 Comments | 30211 views
Create Visio Flowcharts Programmatically

Learn how to build Visio flowcharts programatically by examining the VBA code in this article.