The sixth 19 of the Visio ShapeSheet functions that start with the letter S are visually described in the Visio document below that is available for download.
Please see the general introduction to this series at ShapeSheet Functions A-Z for more information.
Each of the ShapeSheet functions that start with the letter S are on separate pages in the following Visio document. All of the functions in this group that will work in Visio for the Web, but at access to the ShapeSheet is currently only available in Visio for the Desktop. The document can be downloaded and placed into OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online. It can then be edited in Visio for the Desktop as a tutorial, or in Visio for the Web if the offending pages are removed.
If the Visio document does not display above, then you can download it directly from here.
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