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Why Visio Shape Smarts Makes Your Life Easier

July 22, 2009 By Visio Guy 2 Comments

smart-geometryIt’s easy to use Visio and not notice some of the things that make it a great diagramming application.

One great feature is how shapes resize–or more aptly–how parts of shapes resize. If you’ve wondered about the term “SmartShapes”, this is an area where Visio shapes are truly smart.

So let’s take a visual tour and see how Visio SmartShapes do intelligent resizing that saves you time and improves your diagrams.

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Filed Under: Power User, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Parameterize, ShapeSheet, Smart Drawings

European Cup 2008 Auto-Updating Visio Diagram (v2)

June 21, 2008 By Visio Guy 2 Comments

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UPDATE!

Hey football/soccer fans! We’ve got an update to our automated smart drawing for this years European Cup soccer tournament.

Perhaps you are familiar with the first version, which can be found here: European Cup 2008 Auto-Updating Diagram

Well, that version needed a few updates, most notably, the handling of games that are resolved with penalty-kicks, or shoot-outs.

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Filed Under: Code, Drawings & Templates, Maps & Geography, Shapes, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Code, Europe, Football, Programming, Smart Drawings, SmartShapes, Soccer, Sport, Web Service

European Cup 2008 Auto-Updating Visio Diagram

June 9, 2008 By Visio Guy 22 Comments

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Visio is a natural choice for creating brackets for sports tournaments.

I have seen many elimination-tournament diagrams created in Visio over the years. In fact, just a few years ago, a very nice example was done for the 2006 World Cup. You can get it at Office Online here: 2006 World Cup Bracket.

But the trouble with these diagrams is that they require *gasp* manual input of data, or user-movement of shapes. The horror!

Well this year, that is all going to change…

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Filed Under: Code, Drawings & Templates, Maps & Geography, Shapes, ShapeSheet, Video Tagged With: Code, Europe, Football, Programming, Smart Drawings, SmartShapes, Soccer, Sport, Web Service

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

Visio Bingo Template

January 23, 2008 By Visio Guy 3 Comments

Read Full ArticleRecently, Matt R asked about a Visio Bingo Template for his marketing team. I thought to myself, “Now there’s a mission-critical application of Visio!”

Well actually, it was a ShapeSheet challenge. I wanted to make a card that allowed the user to randomly update the numbers, but without using any code.

The resulting bingo card shape is implemented entirely using the ShapeSheet. There’s no VBA code behind the number generation, so you don’t have to worry about any VBA Macro Security issues.

[Read more…] about Visio Bingo Template

Filed Under: Drawings & Templates, Humor, Shapes Tagged With: Bingo, random, Right-Click Actions, Smart Drawings, Themes

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