Oktoberfest meets Visio with this intelligently-resizing beer stein (Maßkrug) shape. Prost!

Do you have shapes that contain multiple colors that you’d like to easily change?
Wouldn’t it be neat to be able to specify those colors in Shape Data fields, along with other parameters for the shape?
Visio’s …

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

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 …

Learn about Visio Multi-shapes, where to find them, how to use them, and how they can save you time!

Visio doesn’t have an option to resize shapes such that they remain on-center. But the free shapes in this article do!

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!

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!

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.

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!

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