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Take Note With the Visio Sticky Note Shape

April 17, 2009 By Visio Guy 13 Comments

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If you like the way you can add comments to Microsoft Excel worksheet cells, or the way you can glue Post-it sticky notes to your monitor’s bezel, then you’ll appreciate this sticky note Visio SmartShape from guest-poster David Edson!

Today’s offering has some pretty neat features, so check out the article which explains how to use the shape, and shows off its unique capabilities!

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Filed Under: Shapes Tagged With: Custom Properties, David Edson, Multi-shapes, Shape Data, SmartShapes

Center-sizing Smart Shapes

April 15, 2008 By Visio Guy 6 Comments

Read Full ArticleVisio 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 unless I have totally missed something (which does occur occasionally), there is one feature that Visio could really use: the ability to resize shapes on-center.

[Read more…] about Center-sizing Smart Shapes

Filed Under: Illustration, Power User, Shapes, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Custom Properties, Formulas, Functions, Locking, Protection, Right-Click Actions, Shape Data, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes, Tracing

Do You Know Your Elements? A Visio Periodic Table

February 23, 2008 By Visio Guy 3 Comments

Read Full ArticleDavid Edson of long-time Visio fame, and currently of Visibility.biz, recently sent us a high-quality Visio rendition of the Periodic Table to share with you.

You’ll want to note that this download is more than just a static diagram! You can use it as an interactive reference, because each SmartShape contains extra information about each chemical element. And you can even right-click each element to link to the Wikipedia entry about each substance!

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Filed Under: Drawings & Templates, Shapes Tagged With: Chemistry, Custom Properties, David Edson, Hyperlinks, Shape Data, Smart Drawings

Pixel Unit Dimension Line Shape

February 17, 2008 By Visio Guy 5 Comments

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I found some blog posts about pixel rulers for Visio. It seems that folks wanted to dimension their Visio shapes in pixels, which Visio doesn’t technically support by default.

But for folks who use Visio to do web-layout wireframes, information architecture and storyboarding, pixel-dimensioning is a useful thing to be able to do!

An earlier article on Visio Guy served up the Rack Unit Dimension Line, which can actually be configured to measure shapes in terms of pixels. But to save time, I’ve modified that shape and offered it here, for your pixel-dimensioning enjoyment.

[Read more…] about Pixel Unit Dimension Line Shape

Filed Under: Shapes, Web Design, Wireframes & IA Tagged With: Custom Properties, Dimension Lines, Images, Scale, Shape Data

Lorem Ipsum – Visio IA Text Placeholder Shape

February 11, 2008 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

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Evidently, lots of designers are using Visio to layout pages. As you dig around on the web, you’ll bump into terms such as IA, Information Architecture, Storyboarding, and Wireframes. These all have to do with designing the look and feel of web pages or other documents.

If you’re doing any sort of page-layout design, you might be interested in quickly creating paragraphs and sections of dummy text that you can format according to the page’s style characteristics. So I thought it would be neat to design a Visio SmartShape that automatically repeats a chunk of text over and over, to speed up the process of laying out a page.

[Read more…] about Lorem Ipsum – Visio IA Text Placeholder Shape

Filed Under: Shapes, Web Design, Wireframes & IA Tagged With: Custom Properties, random, Shape Data, SmartShapes, Text

Month Math

July 10, 2007 By Visio Guy 4 Comments

An associate asked me the other day; “how do you add a number of months to a date?”

I thought this would be simple, because the ShapeSheet supports elapsed-time units in addition to date and time formats.

With elapsed-time, you can manipulate quantities of time, so the problem seemed fairly easy.

Well, not exactly… [Read more…] about Month Math

Filed Under: ShapeSheet Tagged With: Calendar, Custom Properties, Formulas, Functions, Shape Data, ShapeSheet

Create Visio Flowcharts Programmatically

September 13, 2006 By Visio Guy 51 Comments

Read Full ArticleI hear quite often the question; “How do I do something in Visio programmatically?” Since many of those requests pertain to flowcharts and organizational charts, I thought I’d conjure up a fairly simple example that illustrates the creation of a flowchart with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code.

This isn’t the simplest example, because I thought it would be important to show how a decision-branch might be handled.

[Read more…] about Create Visio Flowcharts Programmatically

Filed Under: Code Tagged With: Code, Connectors, Create Diagrams Programmatically, Custom Properties, Drop Visio Shapes, Flowchart, Programming, Shape Data

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