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Editing Visio Dynamic Connectors

This post is intended as a quick reference for manually editing Dynamic Connectors that I needed for a customer.

In general, Visio does a good job of handling routing using the Dynamic Connector, but occasionally, and depending on the routing style you have applied, some manual adjustment can be required.

Visio Congress Shapes

This post is inspired by the US mid-term elections back in November and I thought I’d put some shapes together in Visio to represent the Senate and House of Representatives.

Stencils under 'More Shapes' in Visio

If you deal with both metric and US units based diagrams then it can be useful to understand how Visio goes about surfacing the correct stencil under the 'More Shapes' menu. This, of course goes double if you're creating stencils yourself, so I thought I describe how things work below.

Visio Data Visualizer part 5 – export to template

This is the fifth in a series posts on a new feature in Visio Pro for Office 365 called Data Visualizer. 

Visio Data Visualizer part 4 – diagram generation

This is the fourth in a series posts on a new feature in Visio Pro for Office 365 called Data Visualizer. 

Visio Data Visualizer part 3 – data mapping

This is the third in a series posts on a new feature in Visio Pro for Office 365 called Data Visualizer.

Visio Data Visualizer part 2 – overview

This is the second in a series posts on a new feature in Visio Pro for Office 365 called Data Visualizer. 

Visio Data Visualizer part 1 – the process

This is the first in a series posts on a new feature in Visio Pro for Office 365 called Data Visualizer.  The feature enables you to map columns of data to specific shape types and have Visio automatically draw a connected flowchart from that data.

Upgrading to Visio Pro for Office 365

I’ve been running Visio Pro for Office 365 on another machine for a while now but I’ve recently upgraded my main machine from Visio Professional 2013 and I thought I'd jot down my experience.

Visio sessions at Ignite

Microsoft Ignite is happening over in Chicago at the moment and there are a number of Visio related sessions:

• Wednesday 6th May 9am (CST) "Microsoft Visio Future and Vision"
• Thursday 7th May 9am (CST) "Operational Excellence and Lean Organizations with Microsoft Visio: Customer Showcases"
• Friday 8th May 9am (CST) "Technical Deep Dive with Visio Pro for Office 365"