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Get Web Hex Color Values from Visio Shapes

May 14, 2010 By Visio Guy 5 Comments

Web designers and AI folks need to know what colors they are using. And they need to know precisely.

Bright red, Fuchsia  and Mauve just won’t do. They need exacting names like: #FF0000, #FF00FF and #E0B0FF.

Since more and more folks are using Visio for prototyping web sites and user interfaces, I thought it might be useful to create a SmartShape that displays the hexadecimal color value for a particular shape.

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Filed Under: Illustration, Shapes, ShapeSheet, Web Design, Wireframes & IA Tagged With: Artistic Effects, Color, ShapeSheet, ShapeSheet Formulas, Smart Colors

Choose Colors with Shape Data Fields

October 21, 2009 By Visio Guy 22 Comments

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Do you have shapes that contain multiple colors that you’d like to easily change?

Wouldn’t it be neat to be able to specify those colors in Shape Data fields, along with other parameters for the shape?

Visio’s Shape Data fields don’t directly support colors, but I’ve come up with a workaround. You can read how I did it, or just get the download and re-use what I’ve already built!

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Filed Under: ShapeSheet Tagged With: Color, Formulas, Functions, Shape Data, ShapeSheet, ShapeSheet Formulas, User-defined Cells

Flip the Switch, Feed the Creature

January 22, 2009 By Visio Guy 4 Comments

feed-the-creaturePeople really get excited about Visio when they see that SmartShapes can react visually to changing conditions.

Whether you change size or position, data stored with the shape, select a context menu item or double-click, a Visio shape can be built to show that something has changed.

A classic example of this is a simple rectangle that changes color when you extend it beyond a certain length…

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Filed Under: History, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Color, Fill Format, Hidden, IF statements, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes

Visio Microphone Shape

June 18, 2008 By Visio Guy 4 Comments

Read Full ArticleWapperdude submitted this “mike” shape to Visio Guy, for us to pass on to our readers.

According to WD, the inspiration came as follows: I saw a request for audio symbols in the Visio forum, had this dumb 1998 mike shape, sent it to school and now it’s smarter.

So for you A/V folks out there in Visio Land, here’s a new SmartShape for your diagramming enjoyment!

[Read more…] about Visio Microphone Shape

Filed Under: AV Equipment, Shapes Tagged With: A/V, Color, Formulas, Multi-shapes, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes

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