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All editions of Microsoft Visio 2010+ can be used to make many different types of diagrams, and most of these types involve connecting one shape to another – sometimes directly, and sometimes by using a connector shape.
However, Microsoft forgot to make it easy to select the connected shapes in order to enhance these useful, informative types of diagrams. We have created a Visio add-in that presents you with a variety of selection methods whenever you select a connected shape.
This greatly increaes your ability to work with these types of diagrams, and increases your productivity in addition to making the diagrams even more useful and understandable.
Key Benefits
- Select shapes in same family as the selected shapes
- Select parent shape(s) of the selected shapes
- Select child shapes of the selected shapes
- Select sibling shaps of the selected shape
- Select shapes instances of the same master of the selected shape
- Select containers of the selected shape
- Select contained shapes of the selected container shape
- Filter all selections by shape type, master or category
- Return to previous selection
Version History
| Version | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0.2 | 23 Jul 2012 | Added support for containers |
| 1.0.1 | 20 Jul 2012 | Added support for Visio 2013 |
| 1.0.0 | 20 Jul 2012 | Initial release |
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