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bVisual Blog by David Parker

Published on September 3, 2020 by David Parker

Maximum Size of a Visio Page and Text block

I needed to check the maximum size of Visio pages for a current project of mine, so I devised a simple test with a diamond shape with its vertices pinned automatically to the edge of the Visio page, with text fields inserted in the center. I started with a standard A0 Landscape page, then multiplied the page width and height using the Page Setup dialog…

  • A Metric A0 page
  • A0 width and height x 10
  • A0 width and height x 100
  • A0 width and height x 50
[Read more…] about Maximum Size of a Visio Page and Text block

Filed Under: ShapeSheet Formulas, Visio, Visio for Desktop Tagged With: Page, Visio

Published on August 13, 2020 by David Parker

Using an Updateable Default Font in Visio

I am working on a Visio project where the client wants to be able to configure the font used in each document. These documents have many custom masters, but the user can add there own annotations too. Therefore, I needed to find a way to synchronise the fonts used in both cases. Visio has Themes and Variants, and some of these built-in settings use different fonts, but there is no way of editing the fonts used in each theme since Office 2010 ( see Create a custom theme). There have been many questions on the web about changing the default font used in Visio, which is currently Calibri, but there were no easy answers found. Visio used to use Styles rather than Themes, and these capabilities are still there, but the buttons are not displayed in the default ribbon. However, the Drawing Explorer window does show the Styles and their hierarchies.

  • No Theme applied
  • Retrospect theme applied
  • Organic theme applied
[Read more…] about Using an Updateable Default Font in Visio

Filed Under: Styles, Themes, Visio, Visio for Desktop Tagged With: Fonts, Styles, Themes, Visio

Published on July 28, 2020 by David Parker

Manual Fix for Slide Snippets in Visio Plan 2

Microsoft Visio Plan 2 has a cool feature, Slide Snippets, that can create a PowerPoint slide show from special rectangle shapes placed around the pages of a Visio document. Unfortunately, there is currently an issue with distortion of the images in PowerPoint, so I will show how this can be fixed manually…

[Read more…] about Manual Fix for Slide Snippets in Visio Plan 2

Filed Under: PowerPoint, Slide Snippets, Visio for Web, Visio Plan 2 Tagged With: PowerPoint, Slide Snippets, Visio

Published on July 24, 2020 by David Parker

Getting the Microsoft Office Theme Value

I am working on a Visio VSTO project where I need to synchronise a UI element with the current session Microsoft Office Theme. At first, I thought that there would be some way of getting a value from the Visio object model, but I was wrong…

The Office Theme can be selected from either the Visio Options, or the Account Options panels.

  • Visio Options
  • Account Options
[Read more…] about Getting the Microsoft Office Theme Value

Filed Under: C#, Shape Design, TimeTable, Uncategorized, Visio, Visio for Desktop Tagged With: Shape Design, Visio

Published on June 11, 2020 by David Parker

Learn about Visio Data Visualizer in Excel, Visio in Teams and Power Automate

I recently wrote a series of articles about some of the new capabilities of the Visio desktop and web app.

Using the Visio Data Visualizer in Excel

Using Visio in Teams

Creating Visio Tabs and Apps for Teams with SharePoint Framework (SPFx)

Designing Power Automate Flows with Microsoft Visio

Filed Under: Articles, MSFlow, Power Automate, SharePoint Online, Teams, Visio, Visio Online Tagged With: Excel, Power Automate, Teams, Viiso

Published on June 11, 2020 by David Parker

Learn how to create custom Visio web app templates

I have now finished three articles about the differences between the Visio desktop and web apps, and how you can already create custom templates for Visio Plan 1.

Comparing Visio for the Web and Desktop

Customising Visio shapes for the web app

Key differences between the Visio desktop and web apps

Register for my webinar Providing Custom Templates for Visio web app

Filed Under: Articles, Visio, Visio for Web, Visio Online, Webcasts Tagged With: Visio, Webinar

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