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• Visualize your organization like never before in the new Visio

  20 Aug 2012

  Organization Charts (Org Charts) are one of the most popular templates in Visio. An org chart helps you create a visualization of your team or organization in terms of relationships among people. While org charts are commonly used to show employees within a reporting hierarchy, they can also be used...
• New Structured Diagrams Whitepaper for Visio 2010

  2 Sep 2010

  Microsoft has published a new technical article on MSDN about the Structured Diagram capabilities of Visio 2010. Structured Diagrams help you organize the contents of your diagrams using intuitive, logical relationships between shapes. These capabilities are exposed as the Containers, Lists, and Callouts...
• Custom Containers, Lists and Callouts in Visio 2010

  12 Jan 2010

  In previous posts we introduced you to Containers and some of their special capabilities . We also introduced Lists through their use in Cross-functional Flowchart , Data Graphic Legends and Wireframe shapes. Finally we introduced Callouts as annotations on Visio diagrams. Containers, Lists and Callouts...
• New ShapeSheet Cells and Functions in Visio 2010

  4 Jan 2010

  Our previous post introduced the improvements we made to the ShapeSheet window for shape developers. In this post, we will continue with ShapeSheet development and dig deeper to examine the new ShapeSheet cells and functions available in Visio 2010. New Cells A number of new cells were added to both...
• ShapeSheet Formula AutoComplete & Other Improvements

  28 Dec 2009

  In this post, we’ll be covering improvements to the ShapeSheet in Visio 2010 that make it easier for shape developers to create and modify existing Visio shapes. For those who don’t know, Visio shapes are more complex than they may seem at first; behind each shape is a ShapeSheet (you can...
• Live Rendering Shapes in Visio 2010

  9 Oct 2009

  For several releases Visio has enhanced the appearance of shapes in diagrams by adding isometric projections or themes with gradients and shadows. All the while, their appearance in the Shapes Window has been unchanged. The 32x32 pixel icons have been limited to 16 colors (reminiscent of the EGA color...
• The Developer tab in Visio 2010

  2 Sep 2009

  Visio has long had a setting called “developer mode” that developers and shape designers can enable in order to surface extra functionality. In previous versions of Visio, enabling developer mode made new items appear in couple of different menus (Chris Roth has a good overview here ). With...
• Visio Conference 2008 videos posted

  21 May 2008

  For anyone who wasn't able to attend the Visio Conference 2008 this February or has been itching to show everyone else the cool things coming in Visio "vNext", the wait is over! Videos from all the conference sessions are posted on http://www.visiotoolbox.com . Click on the conference link in the bottom...
• Images and the Dynamic Grid

  29 Jan 2008

  A recent newsgroup post described a problem getting the Dynamic Grid feature to work with images. The user inserted pictures into their diagram and wanted the same alignment aids that Visio provides for regular shapes. This can be done with a small modification of the image shapes. First let's look at...
• Publishing Visio 2007 Solutions

  14 Sep 2007

  Saul Candib, our technical writer for Visio, has posted an excellent article on MSDN explaining how to publish Visio 2007 solutions. In this context "solutions" refers to the add-ons, templates, stencils and/or help files that you have created and want to distribute to other people. We covered this topic...
• Make Your Own Data Graphic – Icon Sets

  20 Jul 2007

  This is the third and final post in a series demonstrating how you can create data graphic callout shapes for use in Visio 2007 Professional. The first post discussed Text Callouts . Data Bars were described in the second post. There is also an article on MSDN that covers the full spectrum of customization...
• Make Your Own Data Graphic – Data Bars

  1 Jun 2007

  This is the second post in a series demonstrating how you can create data graphic callout shapes for use in Visio 2007 Professional. The first post discussed Text Callouts . There is also an article on MSDN that covers the full spectrum of customization possibilities for Data Graphics. A Data Bar is...
• Make Your Own Data Graphic - Text Callouts

  1 May 2007

  Data Graphics is a great new feature in Visio 2007 Professional for displaying data on your shapes. One key to the feature's popularity is that you can make or customize your own data graphic callout shapes. There is an article posted on MSDN that covers the full spectrum of customizations possible for...
• Where's my text control handle?

  23 Mar 2007

  A Visio user posted a question in the newsgroups about the yellow text control handle on connector shapes. Some connectors have a yellow handle and some don't. What's going on? Starting in Visio 2003, the built-in connector shape used by the Connector Tool was modified to include a text control handle...
• Make Your Own Bubble Chart, part 3

  16 Feb 2007

  This post is part of a series examining Bubble Chart diagrams. We are building a Bubble Chart stencil from scratch to make diagram creation easy for the user. You can get the completed stencil from the first post in the series. In the previous post , we completed the Bubble Chart master shape. This shape...
• Make Your Own Bubble Chart, part 2

  13 Feb 2007

  This post is part of a series examining Bubble Chart diagrams. We are building a Bubble Chart stencil from scratch to make diagram creation easy for the user. You can get the completed stencil from the first post in the series. In the previous post , we started working on the Bubble Chart master shape...
• Make Your Own Bubble Chart, part 1

  9 Feb 2007

  In the previous post we introduced the Bubble Chart diagram and demonstrated a quick way to create one using the BubbleChart.vss stencil. This stencil was custom-built for the blog, so grab the file attachment from the previous post. Now we build the stencil from scratch to understand how to integrate...
• Introducing the Bubble Chart

  6 Feb 2007

  A Bubble Chart is a diagram that presents multi-dimensional data in a graphical form. Each data field is tied to a particular visualization. Most often data controls the Size and Position of elements in the chart. Thus the diagrams often resemble a bunch of bubbles. Taken to an extreme, data can be visualized...
• Working with ResizeMode

  30 Jan 2007

  In this post, we take a break from Visio 2007 information and explore a peculiar shape design issue. If you have worked with Groups in Visio, you have probably encountered a situation where the shapes inside of a group just don't behave properly during resize. Sometimes you want shapes inside a group...
• Remove Hidden Information

  5 Jan 2007

  In a previous post we discussed the fact that a Visio document can become bloated over time by accumulating masters, styles, layers, fonts and colors that are no longer used in the diagram. Often the file size impact is minimal, but not always. Visio 2007 includes a new feature called Remove Hidden Information...