With this post I’m trying out something new: I’ll be posting some videos to give you a little bit of a better flavor of some of the features in Visio. One of the Visio 2007 features that is most compelling visually is AutoConnect. Here is the basic description of what I’m doing in the video:…
Presentation on Building Solutions using the Visio 2007 Data API
The Office team has put up video of all of the presentations from the Office Developer Conference held this past spring. At the conference, I presented a Visio 2007 session focusing on building solutions using the new Data APIs. The direct link to the video of the session is available here. The quality of the…
Visio 2007: PivotDiagram Tips and Tricks, part 3
The default PivotDiagram layout is a hierarchy with spacing of 9.5 mm (or 0.375 in) between shapes. This works pretty seamlessly for a lot of data out there, but one of the powerful aspects of the PivotDiagram feature is your control over how your shapes are laid out. PivotDiagrams use the standard Visio layout feature…
Announcing the Visio Customer Council
We’re always looking for ways to better understand the needs and concerns of Visio customers. To that end, one of the tools we use is the Visio Customer Council. Council members are uniquely positioned to have their voices heard by the designers and developers of Visio. Members can provide feedback on proposed features and interact,…
Visio 2007: More on Customizing Data Graphics: Icon Sets with Images
In the previous two posts on customizing Data Graphics, I covered general customization (using a text callout example) and customizing icon sets. If you are creating icon sets, often you’ll want to use existing images rather than trying to figure out how to redraw them. There are two main tips for creating icon sets with…
Visio 2007: More on Customizing Data Graphic Items: Icon Sets
In my earlier post on Data Graphics customization, I covered how to edit a text Graphic Item. A few people have asked for more information on how to deal specifically with Icon Sets since that is a place where there are most often domain-specific icons to be represented. We do have some documentation coming out…
New Office and Visio icons
It looks like the Office Design Group has gone public with the new icons for Office 2007. Visio is the one on the bottom left – we have the same basic flowchart metaphor.
Visio at the Worldwide Partner Conference
If you are at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2006 in Boston, make sure to head to the Data Visualization session since it will heavily feature Visio solutions. It is happening tomorrow afternoon at 4: IW008 Scale Up Your Business with Data Visualization Wednesday, July 12 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM, 103 Speaker(s): Sanjay Puri, Margaret…
Designing the floorplan of a personal 767
I’ve been following this story with great interest since it first broke in the Wall Street Journal. While I don’t currently have a 767, you can never be too prepared. With that in mind, I whipped together a Visio version of the airplane floorplan from the story using the default Home Plan stencil (the nice thing…
10 Tips for Creating Great Process Flowcharts
Here are some tips for building great flowcharts in Visio. The last three are specific to Visio 2007, but the rest are relevant to any version of Visio. Creating sub-processes and linked processes using hyperlinks. When you have a complex process or one that shares some sub-processes with other processes within your company, it makes…