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Constraining Angle with the BOUND ShapeSheet Function

December 14, 2006 By Visio Guy 1 Comment

Cori who writes the blog Elliptical… wrote this nice little piece on constraining a shape’s angle so that it can only be rotated in 90-degree increments. I thought I’d relay the information to you here, and explain a bit more about the BOUND ShapeSheet function.

Although you can use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+R and Ctrl+L to rotate shapes in 90-degree increments clockwise and counterclockwise, this does nothing to actually constrain the allowable values.

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Filed Under: ShapeSheet Tagged With: Formulas, Functions, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes, Text

Visio Advent Calendar

December 1, 2006 By Visio Guy 4 Comments

Read Full ArticleDecember is here and Christmas is near! What better way to celebrate than with your very own Visio Advent Calendar!

I’ve created a Visio file that’s full of all sorts of goodies. Just open the file every day from now until December 25th and you’ll get a new visual, Visio treat!

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Filed Under: Seasonal, Shapes Tagged With: Calendars, Christmas, Formulas, Right-Click Actions, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes, Winter

Polyline Shape Maker

November 27, 2006 By Visio Guy 8 Comments

Sometimes your Visio SmartShapes can be like beauty pageant contestants: they just need to look good, but don’t need a lot of intelligence. The creators of Visio realized this (after five versions) and gave us a way to streamline lots of “dumb” vector data. The ShapeSheet function: POLYLINE and the geomettry row: PolyLineTo will help you get the job done.

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Filed Under: Code, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Code, Formulas, Functions, Geometry, Polygon, Polyline, Programming, ShapeSheet, Tools

Counting Geometry Sections

October 4, 2006 By Visio Guy 7 Comments

Read Full ArticleDavid Parker from over at bVisual stole the Viso Freak Crown with this newsgroup post a few days ago. His answer solves the problem of how to count the number Geometry Sections in the ShapeSheet, and it uses a really loooooooong ShapeSheet formula!

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Filed Under: ShapeSheet Tagged With: Formulas, Functions, ShapeSheet

Casting Units in Visio’s ShapeSheet

October 3, 2006 By Visio Guy 4 Comments

Read Full ArticleIf you work with different systems of units, you may have a need to convert ShapeSheet values to different units, without changing values. But when you Show Values in the ShapeSheet how can you specify exactly which units to use?

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Filed Under: ShapeSheet Tagged With: Formulas, Functions, ShapeSheet

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