John Goldsmith's visLog

Highlighting images using a mask

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...

Hiding Pages

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...

Looping through

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)...