Smart graphics for visual people
Microsoft Visio is a great tool for planning your banking scandals!
Ok, the folks in Redmond might not want to market it that way, but it makes a great opening line. Anyway, I saw an interesting-looking flowchart in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and thought I’d play around with Visio 2010 and see if I could re-create it.
If you use Visio to make very long and wide swimlane diagrams, then you may be frustrated by the fact that Visio’s lane-headers only appear at one end of the lane.
By the time you get to the other end of you cross functional flowchart, you forget who’s responsible for what, and why a shape is in a particular band.
Well, today we’ve got a download that will help you fix this problem!
Well folks, this Visio Guy and his main squeeze have been busily preparing for a year abroad, where we’ll be sharing our Visio knowledge with you from exotic locations such as Fiji, New Zealand, Australia and Asia. Now you can understand why we’be been preparing all those Geographic Map Drawings!
I hear quite often the question; “How do I do something in Visio programmatically?” Since many of those requests pertain to flowcharts and organizational charts, I thought I’d conjure up a fairly simple example that illustrates the creation of a flowchart with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code.
This isn’t the simplest example, because I thought it would be important to show how a decision-branch might be handled.