Questions tagged [microsoft-visio]
Diagramming software for Windows and part of Microsoft's Office suite. Visio can be used to create documents such as flowcharts, organization charts, network topologies, and software architecture diagrams.
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Creating Visio object with auto-height Header and Body text boxes
I wish to create an Object* that has Header and Body text boxes that auto-height with text but allow horizontal manual resizing.
I have created this visual (using grouped shapes and manual grouping/...
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How do I remove all the empty unused space in a Visio drawing screen?
I use Visio Plan 2. I didn't find this question.
When I create a Visio diagram the work space is almost limitless. But that means that if I accidentally click somewhere - even worse if I'm using my ...
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MS Visio: how to add arrows to SVG path?
I need your help.
I have an SVG file containing (among the others) the line and path objects. What I need to do is to import this SVG into MS Visio and then add arrowheadss to these imported lines ...
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Using Fill Patterns with Data Graphics Color By Value in Visio
I am linking an Excel spreadsheet to a Visio drawing, then using Advanced Data Graphics to visualize the data behind each shape. Currently, I have two Data Graphics applied. 1) Displays text within ...
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Scale of objects in custom stencils
I have inherited a visio stencil file from my work group which is supposed to use to layout out our common machine so that we could have the flow and actual size of the production lines.
However, I am ...
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Exporting Visio drawing to PDF, but the text in the shapes are not searchable in the resulting PDF document
I have a Visio drawing that is comprised of an image that has been imported into Visio, then rectangles are scattered throughout the document; each of these rectangles has a unique piece of text ...
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Is it possible to apply a custom theme to a collection of Visio files?
I have a collection of hundreds of Visio diagrams and I want to change the colors scheme and style.
I have been trying to use the Themes and Variants but up to now they don't seem to function in the ...
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Office 365 Visio - How to create a table list?
I often use Visio to show how SQL tables join, and in the desktop version I insert an Excel object, and write the important columns data points.
But Vision in Office 365 doesn't support that option, ...
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MS Visio no lines jumps over lines from hidden layers
I am using multiple layers with connectors to objects. The connectors are part of multiple hidden layers. How can I prevent any visible connector to create a jump line over these hidden lines but ...
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Visio gradient fill and stencils
I am trying to save a simple rectangle with a gradient fill to a stencil in Vision (2016), but the gradient won't seem to save.
In fact, it seems somewhat arbitrary which formattings do get saved.
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Visio: How to unglue two shapes
I draw two shapes (say a line and an arc). Then I move the line so that one end of the line meets one end of the arc. As a consequence, the two shapes are glued together (because that is how I have ...
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How to remove document structure tags by default?
I want to export Visio documents as PDFs but don't want the document structure tags on. I know I can uncheck the box each time I wish to export the document, but is there a way of making this the ...
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How can I create this shape in Visio?
I want to create a shape like this, with 3 rows that I can hold text:
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Editing ShapeSheet in Visio makes no difference
I'm making electric diagrams in Visio 2019. My problem is that when I try to resize a stencil, as the Inductor shape, the line width of the shape is resized proportionally to the shape width, but I ...
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How can you use data fields for a box text in Microsoft visio
I want to import the data from some spreadsheets into a diagram and then rearrange them.
As part of this one of the fields should be displayed as the text box and the other used to colour the box.
I'...
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I'm not able to change the all colors to back color in Visio drawing
i tried so many things to change all the colors to black color and make blank floor plan and nothing is helped me to make the floor plan blank will only includes the drawing with black colo
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Can I draw multiple connectors on single edge of a rectangle in Visio?
I need to draw a diagram where multiple connectors come out of single edge of a shape (rectangle for example).
Can it be done without losing the connection between the connectors and the rectangles?
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In Visio, how do I change the size of one page without changing the size of all other pages within the document?
I'm trying to resize one page to fit a diagram, but whenever I use "Auto Size" or "Fit to Drawing" it changes the size of every page within the file. Is there a way to resize one ...
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Change selection style
Suddenly my selection tool style changet from usual rectangular to dotted line:
Rectangular:
Dotted line:
How to get back to rectangular selection?
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Adjust position of newly created connecting point
I have added new connector on my shape and have connected arrow to it. I would like to change connector position in order to get straight connection line. It looks like I can move objects according to ...
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Get two windows of the same document
I can have document view in two separate windows of MS Word by clicking View->New Window. Trying to make the same with Visio. After I click View->New Window I got two document view in same Visio ...
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Is there a way to retrieve and compile object text from a shape or connector in a Visio drawing?
I have a diagram with a bunch of numbered connectors. I'd like to be able to easily/quickly create a list of all of the connector numbers in the diagram. Is there a way to do this without inputting ...
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Specify then LOCK the line --LENGTH-- for a drawing
I am sketching out a section of my backyard with trees, a fences, and some big rocks to determine how large of a shed I can put "in the backyard." Measurements to all the trees have been ...
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How to make visio image clear even when you drag a corner to resize it small?
How do you draw clear shapes in Visio? I think it's related to resolution somehow. I tried to increases line with to 3-5 but still doesn't look good. I also tried to reduce the distance between lines ...
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How can I draw right angled or square end in Visio?
I don't know if it's just me but in my Visio normally a line has rounded end as in 1.
How can I draw right angled or square end as 2?
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How to link a Visio drawing to a specific region or table in Excel
I would like to place a table in Visio that is directly linked to the actual table in Excel. That way it will show the information I want and update it in the Visio diagram when it is updated in Excel....
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Searchable Visio diagram in Word
I am often asked why I use Word to draw diagrams instead of using Visio. My standard reply is because you can't search for words in Visio when you're in Word.
The only way I've found so far is to ...
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Importing Entity Relationships from Excel into Visio
Looking for help/any advice importing a very large many-to-many entity relationship diagram from data in Excel into a relationship diagram in Visio.
My data is identifying upstream & downstream ...
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Visio VBA "Expected: end of statement" error
This has me stumped. It worked fine when I first wrote this code a few days ago. Now, though, it is as if Visio thinks the syntax is incomplete or incorrect. I am getting this error:
I wondered if it ...
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SVG Export - Line Patterns not showing
I am using visio to create technical drawings. My further workflow depends on using the svg export of this drawing. However, I stumbled into the following problem. The custom line patterns are not ...
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Why does the edit method of an embedded Word object in Visio change?
In Microsoft Visio, one can insert a Microsoft Word object (Insert / Text / Object / "Microsoft Word Document").
Most of the time when I do this, when I later go to edit the content of that ...
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How to remove Visio connector handles?
I'm sure many people share this frustration but I can't find a prior solution.
When I add a standard curved connector to my Visio diagram, I prefer it not to have any of the intermediate handles. Not ...
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Hiding "Calculated Area" information in a Shape item in Visio 2016
In Visio 2016, when inserting a "Space" shape (from the "Walls, Shell and Structure" stencil in the "Maps and Floor Plan" category) the inserted and auto-sized shape ...
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How can I define the number of connection points based on user input when adding a shape?
I'm trying to create a shape that represents an AV connection panel.
I'd like Visio to prompt the user for the number of connections when the shape is dragged from the stencil into the drawing.
In the ...
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Change Selection Highlight Color in Microsoft Visio O365
I now Visio O365 installed, and I have a question: Is it possible to change the color of the highlighted area when doing a Ctrl F to search for something?
I have tons of information on multiple pages, ...
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Visio 2019: Change existing or create new custom connector
I'm new to Visio. I'm currently playing around with connectors. I can change color of a connector - but Visio will simply not allow me to change the line-type from solid to dash or change the begin/...
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How to open a file in Microsoft Visio in command line?
I am trying to open a file in Microsoft Visio using command line. start \d "path" visio.exe
Now, how to open a specific file? \1 opens first previously opened file, but not the specific one.
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Force Visio to automatically make horizonal, single line connectors
In Microsoft Visio 2019, is there some way to automatically cause a connector to be connected to another vertical connector with a straight, horizontal line? The junction between the connectors should ...
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Office 365 Visio UML alternative fragment resize and drawing on grid
Sometimes wonder if I am just stupid, or if Visio has been designed too complex, with as a result that simple things are just not possible. Maybe somebody can enlighten me here.
When placing an ...
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Can't change selection highlight color MS Visio Pro 2019
I have Visio Pro 2019 installed on a Windows 10 machine with Office Pro 2016 for all other MS products. By default it is dark blue and nearly invisible when selecting black stencils, lines, etc.
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Does anyone know a way to get such an End Arrow type in Visio?
Does anyone know a way to get such an End Arrow type in Visio?
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Remove hidden margin on Visio 2019 Entity Relationship Diagram
Using Visio 2019, I'm trying to do the following:
File -> New -> Crow's Foot Database Notation template
Drag an "Entity" shape type onto the page
Name an attribute something long
As you can see from ...
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How to see a list of all pages in Visio 2016?
I've found out how to do it for Visio 2010, as I would like to print the list of all pages in a separate tab, but I can't find the small forward backward buttons to the left of the page tabs(status ...
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How can you disable shapes from being selected?
How can you disable shapes from being selected?
If I do a CTRL + A, is there anyway to set a shape so that it is excluded from the selection?
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How to add more of these yellow handles for the line tool in Visio?
How to add more of these textboxes that have handles that are attached to the line tool in Visio?
Please see the picture, there is a yellow handle right in the middle.
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How do I reset the connector points of a shape?
While working on a Visio diagram, I noticed the same shape that I had duplicated a few dozen times actually had custom connector points on it. Essentially every Rectangle shape now has additional off-...
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MS-VISIO how to create a shape that prompts user to insert hyperlink?
How to create a shape that prompts the user to insert a hyperlink?
similar to how this shape currently performs.
"Software and Database > Software > Controls > Hyperlink"
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How to get the missing Edit and Open items in context menu for Visio drawing in Word?
On two different PC with Windows 10 bit, I have MS Office Professional Plus 2016 and MS Visio Standard 2016, and both are fully updated for Windows and Office.
In the same Word document with an ...
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How to find out which Visio shape I am using?
I have a Visio diagram with a special shape, which I like very much. It looks like a rectangle with a fancy label. When I want to make a new diagram, the first thing I do is copy-paste this rectangle.
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Microsoft Visio Page settings
I used to use Visio years ago (2003 version), recently installed it again(2016 version) to make some technical drawings. But it has been frustrating to say the least.
What i wish is that the "page" ...
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