In the first PivotDiagram tips post, I talked about some of the alternate ways to create a new PivotDiagram. In this post, I’ll cover an alternate way to filter your data. Filtering by Using “Promote” After creating your diagram and hooking up your data source, the most frequent first step we see is filtering down…
Visio Conference 2006 presentations available online
If you didn’t get a chance to make it to the Visio Conference we held in January, we’ve put up audio/visual recordings from all of the sessions at http://www.visioconferencecontent.com/. There is a lot of great information there, whether you are interested in the developer sessions, hearing about Visio 2007, or seeing what partners are doing…
Visio 2007: Value Stream Mapping
Over the last several years, we have seen Lean become more and more prominent as a process improvement methodology. Although it has roots in manufacturing, it is starting to migrate to other industries like healthcare. One of the key parts of the Lean methodology is Value Stream Mapping, a form of process mapping that is…
Visio 2007: Test Drive
I’ve started focusing more and more on the new features in Visio 2007 and will definitely continue to do so. For those of you who are interested but aren’t quite ready to commit a machine to beta software just yet, there is a new option out there. The new Office test drive site lets you use…
Visio 2007: Publish as PDF or XPS
As many of you know, Visio 2007 and the other Office applications will support exporting to Adobe PDF and Microsoft XPS (XML Paper Specification). This works out of the box in Beta 2, but will be a separate free download when the final version is released (see this post for details). To generate one of…
Visio 2007: PivotDiagram tips and tricks, part 1
Eric posted a little bit about PivotDiagrams and what you can do with them. I’d like to add a little flavor to that by giving you a little more information about how to get the most out of working with the feature. Adding a PivotDiagram to an Existing Diagram Eric mentioned the new PivotDiagram template, and…
Allowing half “U” sizes in Rack Diagrams
In this post, I discussed some general tips on how to work with shapes with intelligent behaviors. Today, I’ll walk through the specific example of the Rack Diagram shapes and how to allow non-integer numbers to be entered for the “U” values (e.g. 1.5 U) in the shapes. There are two parts to this. First,…
Visio 2007: Customizing Data Graphic Items
After spending a couple days chatting with people here at TechEd, I am amazed at how many people have already downloaded and have been playing around with Visio 2007 Beta 2. If you don’t have it yet, you can check it out here. In particular, a lot of people have seen the Data Graphics feature and…
Tricks for working with the built in Visio shapes
Having shapes that work intelligently is one of the most powerful aspects of Visio. A lot of the built in templates take full advantage of that and react to changes that users make to shape data or by dragging the control handles without requiring code. Most of the time this is exactly what people want…
Visio Viewer in Outlook 2007
A big piece of news is that the Visio Viewer will be installed by default whenever Outlook 2007 is installed. This is happening as part of a new feature in Outlook – automatic preview of attachments directly in the Outlook reading pane. Visio will be one of the supported file formats and the way this…