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Visio 2013 Themes in the ShapeSheet (Part 2)

So now you know, from the previous post, that there’s no smoke and mirrors here - it’s just general formatting values being calculated in the ShapeSheet.  With this knowledge I’m now going to move on and look at what happens in the ShapeSheet, when you start clicking things in the UI.

Visio 2013 Themes in the ShapeSheet (Part 1)

Having covered how to use the new Visio 2013 themes in the previous post, I’m now going to consider what’s happening from a shape developers perspective.

In this post, I’ll try and uncover how themes are structured and how they actually get surfaced in individual shapes and in the next post, I’m going to have a look at precisely what happens in the ShapeSheet when you select theme related controls in the UI.