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Visio 2010 Live Preview – Formatting & Themes

July 28, 2009 By Visio Guy 4 Comments

live-preview-formatting-themesAs I play with the Office 2010 Technical Preview, I am discovering more new features in Visio 2010 every day.

The live preview stuff is fascinating because it is cool to look and it saves you a lot of time. No more wasted cycles of apply and undo, apply and undo, apply and undo–just hover your mouse over an attribute and Visio shows you what it will look like: live, right on the drawing!

Today I’ll talk about live preview as it applies to formatting, theme colors and theme effects.

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Filed Under: News, Visio 2010 Tagged With: Live Preview, Themes

Battle Zone Theme Template

June 28, 2008 By Visio Guy 8 Comments

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1980 witnessed the launch of the classic arcade game Battlezone by Atari.

In 2007, Microsoft launched Visio 2007, which included the new Themes feature.

For 28 years, the two have been on a collision course with destiny…linked by computers, the Geek Factor…and Fate.

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Filed Under: Drawings & Templates, Power User Tagged With: Backgrounds, Battlezone, Themes

Apple iPhone Network Shape

March 23, 2008 By Visio Guy 22 Comments

Read Full ArticleI know, I know, you’re probably thinking what I’m thinking: I’m just not cool enough to be a Mac person…

But that doesn’t mean we have to go without!

Yup! It’s time for another overdrawn Visio Network shape, like the Logitech VX Revolution Mouse Shape, the Thinkpad Network Shape. or the USB Stick Shape.

Since it’s Easter Sunday, and things are slow around here, I was in the mood to create something pretty. And of all the new gadgets on the market, few are prettier than the sensational Apple iPhone and the Apple iPod Touch.

So for you Apple fans who still use PCs, and for you die-hard Windows fans who appreciate a bit of sarcasm, please enjoy the Apple iPhone Visio Network Shape.

<haha> And NO, there won’t be a Mac Version of this shape… </haha>

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Filed Under: Network, Shapes Tagged With: Apple, Artistic Effects, Explode, Phone, shiny, Themes

How Many Fill Colors Can You Put on a Visio Shape?

March 4, 2008 By Visio Guy 13 Comments

Read Full ArticleThe easy answer to this questions is: two. A single-shape can have two colors in its fill: a Fill Color and a Pattern Color.

If you want more, you have to group separate, differently-colored shapes together. In fact getting more colors is one of the major reasons that shapes become groups in the first place.

But if two were the actual answer, well, this article would over.

You see, Visio-Guy-friend Saveen Reddy has been up to his usual tricks of pushing Visio beyond the obvious and into the intriguing…

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Filed Under: Development, Illustration, Power User, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Artistic Effects, Fill Format, Gradient, Multi-shapes, Right-Click Actions, Smart Tags, SmartShapes, Themes

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.

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

Logitech VX Revolution Mouse Shape

October 23, 2007 By Visio Guy 2 Comments

Read Full ArticleIt’s snowing here in Liezen, Austria and I don’t have proper winter clothing with me. So I thought I’d take advantage of this indoor time and finish up another over-drawn network shape and offer it to you, the Visio Guy Public.

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Filed Under: Network, Shapes Tagged With: Artistic Effects, Logitech, Mouse, Right-Click Actions, SmartShapes, Themes, Visio Themes

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