This is the first of a two-part post on how to use bitwise functions in the ShapeSheet. The main driver for this is to make it easier to build complex, but maintainable shapes enabling you to quickly swap between states, both in terms of behaviour and visual appearance.
Before I get into the ‘how’, in the next post, I thought I’d deal with the ‘what’ in this one. If you’re already familiar with bitwise operations then feel free to skip to the next post – if not, then don’t worry, the logic here is pretty simple once you understand what’s going on…
The introduction of Internet Explorer 10 has an impact on Visio’s Save As Web output when you specify VML as the primary output format. In this post, I’m going to look at what’s changed and how you can work around the problem.
In amongst some of the new changes in Visio 2013 is the addition of a new ShapeSheet cell in the Foreign Image section. Since I looked at image masking a few years ago (as did Chris Roth), I thought it would be interesting to take a look what you can now do with this new cell.
Microsoft released the public preview of the next version of Office yesterday and, of course, that includes Visio. There’s some great new features and functionality coming in this new version, which I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on.
This is the third and final part of a post on how to create a Visio shape that displays multiple colours based on linked data within an Excel workbook...
This is the second part of a three-part post on how to create a Visio shape that displays multiple colours based on linked data within an Excel workbook...
A recent question on the VisioGuy forum asked how you would go about creating a Visio shape that displays multiple colours based on linked data within an Excel workbook. I thought I’d have a look at how you might tackle this problem…
The last post on ‘Modifying the Visio Grid shape’ demonstrates how to change the resizing behaviour of a complex shape from a ShapeSheet perspective. I used the word ‘modifying’ but, in fact, it’s actually a new shape and one built using code and it’s this aspect that I thought I’d focus on in this post.
I’d love to encourage anyone who’s not written any code before to keep reading as I think this makes a good challenge for new coders. If you’re in that boat then you might also want to have a quick read through Just for starters and Looping through to get you going, but the code below has lots of comments and is hopefully self explanatory.
A recent TechNet forum question asked if it was possible to change to behaviour of the Grid shape, found under ‘Charting Shapes’ stencil. The existing shape’s size is based on the total number of columns and rows whether they are visible or not. I thought I’d take a look at one way of changing this…
