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Visio Plan 2

Published on November 27, 2020 by David Parker

Creating PowerPoint Presentations automatically from Visio

Visio Plan 2 has a great, but flawed, feature called Slide Snippets, that can create PowerPoint presentations automatically from any number of titled rectangles, on any number of pages in a Visio document. However, it usually creates distorted images, and it does not automatically contain any descriptive text or hyperlinks. I have previously described how the distortions can be manually fixed (see Manual Fix for Slide Snippets in Visio Plan 2 ), but that is tedious, so I have written a Visio add-in, SS Plus, to not only fix the image, but also allow hyperlinks to be added to it, and to include descriptive text that can include bold, italics and hyperlinks … and can be automatically converted into SmartArt layouts!

  • Simply edit the ScreenTip in Visio
  • .. to create SmartArt with Hyperlinks in PowerPoint
  • Denote bold and italic text in Visio
  • .. to create richer text blocks in PowerPoint
  • Add a hyperlink to the Slide Snippet in Visio
  • … to become an image hyperlink in PowerPoint

If you want to read more then please go to SS Plus to learn how you can try it for free!

Filed Under: PowerPoint, SS Plus, Visio Plan 2 Tagged With: Slide Snippets, Visio

Published on September 23, 2020 by David Parker

Visio is NOT Vizio!

Update 1 : Microsoft read this post and immediately corrected the spelling so the following now works : https://adoption.microsoft.com/virtual-hub/search/?_sft_vh_product=microsoft-visio 🙂

Update 2 : Mr VisGuy! “spelt” is the same as “spelled” outside USA!

Aarghh! What kind of message is sent out if a company does not know how to spell the name of their own product? There is a make of TV in the States called Vizio, which is not the name of my favourite data-diagramming application, Visio. It may be pronounced the same, but believe me it is totally different. So, it is extremely disappointing that Microsoft have allowed their own product to be spelt incorrectly in the Virtual Hub in the Microsoft Ignite 2020 website.

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Filed Under: Excel, Power Automate, PowerBI, Teams, Visio, Visio for Desktop, Visio for Web, Visio Plan 2 Tagged With: Excel, Power Automate, PowerBI, Teams, Visio

Published on September 22, 2020 by David Parker

Visio now and beyond at Microsoft Ignite 2020

I have presented at the last four Microsoft Ignite conferences and was part way through the world-wide tour when this pandemic began. I was looking forward to visiting New Orleans for this years shindig, but, alas, we are now in a new world where in-person events are a fond memory. Fortunately, Microsoft have the tools to create an engaging online experience, and today I was able to see Mukul and Saurabh bring us all up to speed on on what has been delivered since last year, and what to expect in the next (see Visio – now and beyond ).

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Filed Under: Teams, Visio, Visio for Desktop, Visio for Web, Visio Online, Visio Plan 2 Tagged With: MSIgnite, Roadmap, 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…

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

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