• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Visio Guy

Smart graphics for visual people

  • Hire Me
    • Hire Me
    • Résumé
  • Products
    • Products
    • Bubble Revision Shape
    • Layers to Pages Utility
    • Rack Unit Dimension Line
    • Radial Elements Tool with up to 100 Wedges
    • Text on a Circle Visio SmartShape
  • Index
    • Articles by Date
    • YouTube – VisioGuy
    • Download Information
    • Suggestion Box
    • Shop
    • Visio Art
    • Visio Links
    • – Visio Shapes & Stencils
    • – Visio Templates & Drawings
  • About
    • About
    • Donate
    • GitHub
    • jsFiddle
    • Reading List
    • Subscribe & Follow
      • – E-mail
      • – facebook
      • – Twitter
      • – RSS
    • Privacy Policy
  • Discussion Forum
    • Visguy Discussion Forum Links
You are here: Home / Archives for Handles

Handles

Visio Handles through the Ages

September 16, 2014 By Visio Guy 6 Comments

visio-handles-through-agesMicrosoft changes the look of Visio’s user interface from time to time. Most of the uproar came for Visio 2010 with the introduction of the dreaded Ribbon.

But Microsoft has also made changes to Visio’s shape-manipulation handles, thereby  rendering millions of painstakingly-created screenshots on websites the world over instantly obsolete, and confusing users everywhere.

As a reference point for users using older and newer versions of Visio, and just out of plain curiosity, I’m rehashing the look of Visio shape handles for Visio 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013. Have fun!

 

[Read more…] about Visio Handles through the Ages

Filed Under: Shapes, Visio 2007, Visio 2010, Visio 2013, Visio Essentials Tagged With: Connection Points, Control Handles, Handles, Selection Handles

Making Bends in Visio’s Dynamic Connector

April 21, 2010 By Visio Guy 32 Comments

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

Filed Under: Power User Tagged With: Connectors, Handles, Visio Connectors

Getting a Handle on Selecting and Subselecting Visio Shapes

October 13, 2009 By Visio Guy 19 Comments

handlesDid you know that Visio allows you to select shapes inside of groups and manipulate them without ungrouping or opening new windows?

The feature is convenient and powerful, but the visual cues that tell you what you are doing are subtle and can lead to confusion. This article will show you what to look for when working with selections, help you to be more proficient in your diagramming, and save you frustration along the way!

[Read more…] about Getting a Handle on Selecting and Subselecting Visio Shapes

Filed Under: Visio Essentials Tagged With: Handles, selecting, sub-shapes, Visio Groups

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

The Hidden World of Visio Shapes

September 5, 2006 By Visio Guy 86 Comments

So you’ve created beautiful graphics in Visio, and you know how to add phantasmal ShapeSheet smarts to your shapes, now its time for you to make it all disappear! I often get asked how to toggle the visibility of various elements of Visio drawings, and I usually offer up one of many solutions. But I don’t think that those many solutions have ever been cataloged in a single place. Until, of course, now…

[Read more…] about The Hidden World of Visio Shapes

Filed Under: Code, ShapeSheet Tagged With: Code, Crop, Fill Format, Geometry, Handles, Hidden, Layers, Programming, Right-Click Actions, ShapeSheet, SmartShapes, Text, Transparency

Primary Sidebar

Get Visio Guy Stuff

Visio Guy Products↻
Visio Guy product image

Post Categories

Buy my book!

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Tag Cloud

A/V Artistic Effects BPM Code Connectors Control Handles Countries Custom Patterns Custom Properties Data Graphics Data Linking Data Visualization David Edson David Parker Fill Format Formulas Functions Geometry Gradient Images Links Maps Multi-shapes Network Programming repeating shapes Resources Right-Click Actions Scale Shape Data ShapeSheet ShapeSheet Formulas ShapeSheet Functions SharePoint shiny SmartShapes Sport Sports Text Themes Tools Transparency User-defined Cells Visio 2007 Visio SmartShapes

Top Posts & Pages

  • Crayon Visio Network Shapes, Revisited
  • - Visio Templates & Drawings
  • Visio Network Server Shape Icon Customization Tool
  • Amazon AWS Visio Shapes
  • Top Twelve Text Tips
  • Go 3D with Free Isometric Piping Shapes for Visio
  • - Visio Shapes & Stencils
  • Spiral Shape Maker
  • Bubble Revision Shapes
  • AV Engineering Diagrams with Symbol Logic ECAV

www.visguy.com - Visio Guy - since 2006

 

Loading Comments...