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Salesforce Schema Builder-style ERD Shapes

March 31, 2020 By Visio Guy 4 Comments

I’ve been working on a modified version of Visio’s built-in ERD shapes. They have a fresh look and streamlined features. I think you’ll like them!

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Filed Under: Data, Power User, Shapes, Templates, Visio 2016, Visio Content Tagged With: Database, Entity Relationship Diagrams, ERD

NHL Team Logo Visio Shapes

February 12, 2018 By Visio Guy Leave a Comment

If you like hockey or are interested in Visio’s data-linking capabilities, then you’ll be interested in these free shapes, and this free article!

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Filed Under: Data, Shapes Tagged With: Hockey, John Marshall, List Containers, Lists, logos, NHL

iPad Viewer for Visio by Nektony

August 31, 2016 By Visio Guy 2 Comments

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If you’ve ever been frustrated by trying to open a Visio attachment while browsing e-mails from your iPad on the couch, then you might be interested in this Visio viewer…for the iPad!

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Filed Under: Beyond Visio, CAD, Data, News, Space Planning Tagged With: cloud, iPad, Layers, Shape Data, viewer

New Book: Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016

July 18, 2016 By Visio Guy 1 Comment

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There’s a new book on data visualization with Visio. And it is probably as good as its title is long!

 

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Filed Under: Code, Data, Development, Power User, ShapeSheet, Visio 2016, Visio Essentials Tagged With: Books, Visio Books

Visio Nerd Videos – For Developers!

July 14, 2016 By Visio Guy 3 Comments

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If you’re interested in the deeper workings of Visio, then you’ll be interested in a series of videos that I’ve been in remiss in reporting!

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Filed Under: Code, Data, Development, Power User, Shapes, ShapeSheet, Tools, Video Tagged With: John Goldsmith, Programming, shapeshe, ShapeSheet, ShapeSheet Formulas, ShapeSheet Functions

USA States Map with Equal-sized States

September 4, 2015 By Visio Guy 2 Comments

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The states in the USA are all over the map when it comes to total area (aka, “size”).

We all love data visualizations on maps, but the wide range of state sizes can distort visual messages.

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Filed Under: Data, Templates, Visio 2010, Visio 2013 Tagged With: Data Graphics, Data Visualization

Data-linking Problem with 64-Bit Visio

December 22, 2010 By Visio Guy 4 Comments

I ran into a problem linking Visio shapes to Excel data the other day. If you are running 64-bit versions of Windows and Microsoft Office, you might run into the same problem.

Fortunately, the solution was quite easy!

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Filed Under: Data Tagged With: Bugs

Using Visio 2010 Containers & Lists to Create Server Drilldowns with Excel Data

June 5, 2010 By Visio Guy 2 Comments

If you aren’t interested in using Visio 2010 for creating sophisticated network rack diagrams, then you probably should be.

Today, fellow Visio-fan Al Edlund tells you why he loves to do this, shares insights on the matter, demos solutions he built, and offers a complete VS 2010 project, written in VB.NET, to help you get started!

The code shows you how to get network data from Excel, how to use the new List and Container shapes in Visio 2010, and how to manipulate them programmatically.  All this to make your network diagrams even more powerful and easy to use!

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Filed Under: Code, Data, Network Tagged With: Al Edlund

Data Refresh on Open

May 13, 2009 By Visio Guy 11 Comments

data-refresh-on-openVisio users are excited about the data features in Visio 2007.

But as they dig deeper, more and more of them are asking this question:

Can Visio provide an automated way to refresh the attached data every time the diagram is opened, so I don’t have to remember to refresh the data myself?

I want to see the very latest version of the data every time I open the diagram.

[Read more…] about Data Refresh on Open

Filed Under: Code, Data, Visio 2007 Tagged With: David Edson

Trilogy-meter Data Graphics Part III

February 25, 2009 By Visio Guy 5 Comments

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Today, we continue with the movie-trilogy theme, but concentrate on advanced tips for importing and working with multiple shapes automatically.

This is the third and final piece in our trilogy of articles on Visio data graphics and data-linking.

[Read more…] about Trilogy-meter Data Graphics Part III

Filed Under: Code, Data, Power User, Visio 2007 Tagged With: Code, Data Linking, Images, Visio 2007

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