I spotted a blog post the other day about a new feature in Office 2010 that enables you to ‘crop’ a subject out of an image. The feature is called Background Removal and is part of Excel, PowerPoint and Word 2010:
The need for this type of functionality crops up in Visio from time to time and both Chris Roth and I have come up with mask workarounds for this in past:
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You’ll have to forgive the poor menus analogy, but I get bored with the same old pictures…
Anyway, on with another new feature in Visio 2010 – Multi-level custom context menus. The current and previous versions of Visio have allowed you to add custom menu items to the context menu of pages and shapes and if you haven’t done so yourself, you only need to right-click on some of the built-in shapes such as the ‘Flowchart shapes’ shape (in the Basic Flowchart Shapes stencil) to see them at work. One limitation, however, has been the inability to group the menu items into any kind of hierarchy. Basically, all menu items that you add, get placed at the top level. Visio 2010 changes that…
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Continuing my review of some of the new features in Visio 2010, today I’m going to look at some exciting functionality that enables you to save your diagrams out to Silverlight…
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I’ve been getting my hands dirty with the new Technical Preview of Visio 2010 and it’s got some great new features. In no particular order, I’m going to start off with a couple of new ShapeSheet features that have caught my eye...
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