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Fit All Pages to Window in a Visio Document

April 13, 2011 By Visio Guy 13 Comments

If you create Visio documents with lots of pages, you probably like to quickly flip through all of them to check for visual consistency.

But if each page has been zoomed or panned, it can be frustrating to have to click Fit to Window for each page.

But with a little macro code, you can make your life a lot easier!

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Filed Under: Code Tagged With: Pages, Programming, Tools

Rack Server Virtualization Add-in

April 14, 2009 By Visio Guy 10 Comments

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A lot of Windows users do network-related stuff with Visio. And for you hard-working folks, life just got a bit easier!

Microsoft just released a nifty add-in for Visio 2007 Pro that lets you utilize rack-server data from Excel or from the user and create Visio diagrams that make analysis a snap.

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Filed Under: Add-ins & Tools, Network, News Tagged With: Tools, Visio add-ins

Map Distance Dimension Line

July 13, 2007 By Visio Guy 19 Comments

In this article, we share with you a dimension line SmartShape that can be calibrated to a scale on an imported image, and be subsequently used to measure distances in that space.

Since Visio is adept at importing images in a variety of formats, it can be a great time savings to start with an image as a background or basis for a diagram that you wish to produce. There are many scenarios where the imported art represents a scaled drawing, be it a map, a floor plan, or some other architectural drawing. [Read more…] about Map Distance Dimension Line

Filed Under: Add-ins & Tools, Maps & Geography, Shapes Tagged With: Dimension Lines, Formulas, Maps, Scale, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes, Tools

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

Polygon Maker

November 24, 2006 By Visio Guy 7 Comments

Another question popped up on the newsgroup forums today asking about making polygon shapes in Visio. This triggered a neuron, and I was off like a flash to perform a search of my …\Visio directory.

Sure enough, I found “PolygonMaker 2002.vsd”, which I have prettied-up for presentation to you today…

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Filed Under: Code, Shapes, Tools Tagged With: Code, Geometry, Polygon, Programming, Tools

Connection Point Directions & Types

October 12, 2006 By Visio Guy 15 Comments

Read Full Article How many of you remember waaay back to Visio 2000, when you could manipulate the type and direction of connection points via nifty UI handles? Well, that functionality was removed from Visio, but I’ve created a free tool that will give it back to you! Using a custom master shape and Visual Basic for Applications code, you can quickly get your 2D connection points in order!

[Read more…] about Connection Point Directions & Types

Filed Under: Shapes, ShapeSheet, Tools Tagged With: Connection Points, Handles, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes, Snap, Tools

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