Visio SmartShapes don’t aren’t just for enhancing your Visio diagrams. They can be put to work as tools too!
Find out how such a Shape Tool can help you navigate multi-page Visio documents with ease!
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Visio SmartShapes don’t aren’t just for enhancing your Visio diagrams. They can be put to work as tools too!
Find out how such a Shape Tool can help you navigate multi-page Visio documents with ease!
WHERE THE HECK IS MY MENU COMMAND?
This phrase has echoed across the globe ever since Microsoft introduced the ribbon user interface and increased our productivity!
But help is on the way.
No, wait! It’s already here!
[Read more…] about Menus to Ribbons: Find Commands in Office 2010!
Visio 2010’s Ribbon interface is very customizable, but it can be tricky finding the command you need.
We’ve published the complete list of commands in this article so that you can easily search the list!
Printing in Visio. Phew!
I’ve been digging through the various options, and I am surprised to see how many different dialogs control aspects of printing in Visio.
Here is a quick overview of the chaos.
You can do some crazy things with Visio’s Dynamic connector…if you know how.
The zig-zaggy image at left is actually one badly-mishandled Dynamic connector, if you can believe it!
So come on in and see just how do wreak such havoc on unsuspecting connectors!
[Read more…] about Making Bends in Visio’s Dynamic Connector
If you’ve Visio for any amount of time, you might have noticed that the selection handles that you use to manipulate shapes take on various forms.
With the coming of Visio 2010, the universe of shape handles gets more complex, because the Microsoft team has changed the look. This will cause confusion as veterans talk to newbies, and people refer to older blog posts for in-depth info about using Microsoft Visio.
So I thought I’d post a few articles that talk about shape handles, and discuss the differences between past and future versions of Visio. If you are an advanced Visio user, or you are developing solutions for Visio, you’ll want to understand the subtle differences between 1D shape handles.
Today I saw a question in the Microsoft Visio newsgroups.
Stefan wanted to know how to make a 3D arrow look like it was going through a rectangular plane.
Of course I couldn’t resist the opportunity to do some drawing, plus it seemed like a nice topic for today’s Visio 3D drawing tutorial!
If you’ve ever created pivot tables in Excel, then you’ll want to see how you can create Pivot Diagrams in Visio 2007 Professional.
Visio lets you drill in and roll up the data to understand structure and hierarchy the way we were meant to understand it: visually!
[Read more…] about Understanding Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Professional Pivot Diagrams
I just read about an extremely cool feature coming in Office 2010, thanks to John Goldsmith’s visLog.
The new functionality will help you to remove backgrounds from images, essentially cutting out the subject of a picture and allowing your own backgrounds to show through.
[Read more…] about Remove Backgrounds From Images With Office 2010!