A newsgroup question caught my attention recently and I thought I'd employ the above sheep to help solve the problem. I met them on a walk with my wife on holiday in Scotland and, while they know next to nothing about Visio, they make a useful sample image for this post.
The question - "How do you highlight part of an image in Visio"?
Whilst you can get to a number of image properties via Format / Picture... and the ShapeSheet, spot highlighting (or any other localized pixel-level manipulation) isn't one of them...
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A recent question in the newsgroups made me think about how you could hide pages using just the ShapeSheet. The answer to hiding pages is usually a programmatic one, often for good reasons, however I thought I'd have a go at a ShapeSheet only approach as an alternative...
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Following on from my previous post, in which I covered some ShapeSheet and VBA basics, today I'm going to look at some simple looping programming methods that do something a little more practical.
There are many situations where you'll need to run through all of the shapes on a page to carry out an operation. This might be in order to check each shape to see if it meets a particular criteria, (for example, only shapes based on a particular master) or perhaps to change a value in every single shape (maybe to change a base URL)...
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