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Published on October 4, 2016 by David Parker

MSIgnite Sessions to Watch in Visio

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Well, MS Ignite is over for another year. I planned to visit loads of sessions, but the reality was that I spent many hours on the Visio booth. Fortunately, many of them were recorded, including ours, but I don’t have time to watch over 700 videos! So, I looked through them all and picked out 50-odd, and used Get & Transform in Excel again to create suitable queries to link to Visio.

The more I use PowerQuery, the more I like it. I was able to extract the unique values in the Personas, Tags, and Products columns which each contained comma separated lists. I data-linked these values to large circles on different pages, and data-linked the Sessions to Watch to hexagonal shapes. I then wrote a little VBA code to link the circles to the hexagons with data-linked connectors. Data Graphics was applied to all shapes, including the connectors, and a legend added. Each of the Session hexagons have an automatically created hyperlink to the On-Demand Video. I used a standard radial page layout so that I had minimal manual movement shapes.
The end result is a visual dashboard by Persona, Tag and Product to open the videos for the sessions I want to watch.

[Read more…] about MSIgnite Sessions to Watch in Visio

Filed Under: MSIgnite, Office 365, PowerBI, Project, SharePoint, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Development, Educational, Excel, Microsoft, Office365, PowerApps, Video, Visio, Web

Published on June 29, 2016 by David Parker

Visio Insights is Back!

Microsoft have just announced that they are re-starting their Visio Insights blog …. after 4 years! See https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visio/2016/06/28/visio-insights-is-back/ .

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We have missed it!

Update 2019 : Replaced with https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Visio-Blog/bg-p/VisioBlog

Filed Under: Visio Tagged With: Educational

Published on May 5, 2016 by David Parker

Three short Visio 2016 video tutorials

I recently created three short videos for Microsoft about the most popular uses of Visio, and utilizing some of the latest features:

  • How to create an Org Chart
  • How to create a Process Flow Diagram
  • Creating a Network Chart
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They are all less than 5 minutes long, and you don’t see me fortunately.

Watch them on YouTube :

Filed Under: Visio 2016 Tagged With: Educational, Network, Org Chart, Processes, Video, Visio

Published on April 14, 2016 by David Parker

Getting better value from your process diagrams with Visio 2016

I will be presenting a one-hour webinar today at 1pm UK time entitled, Getting better value from your process diagrams with Visio 2016.

Process flow diagrams are amongst the most popular diagram types in Visio, but many users do not know some of the tips, tricks and techniques for getting the best out of Visio, in terms of productivity and efficiency.

This webinar covers understanding structured diagrams, enhancing shape data rows, hyperlinking, validation and exporting.

Follow this link to register : Microsoft Visio Webinar Series

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Filed Under: Process Flows, Visio Tagged With: Educational, Processes, Shape Data, ShapeSheet Functions, Webinar

Published on December 17, 2015 by David Parker

Skill Up with my Visio Book … and other titles for just $5!

From today (17th December 2015) into the New Year, Packt Publishing is inviting the tech world to explore its extensive library of eBooks and Video courses for one amazing price. Every single eBook and Video course Packt has ever created will be available on packtpub.com for just $5

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Follow this link : http://bit.ly/1LHNDwI

Also, as a follow up to last summer’s Skills and Salary Reports, Pack has also created their very first Year in Review http://bit.ly/1k4exs8. It will guide you through the biggest topics to come out of 2015 and show you what’s going to be defining 2016 and beyond – so you can learn intelligently and strategically.

Wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy 2016 in advance

Filed Under: Visio Tagged With: Educational

Published on December 2, 2015 by David Parker

Microsoft Convergence EMEA 2015 in Barcelona

I am a little late posting this, but the day is young! I am on the Microsoft Visio booth if there is anyone out there who wants to learn more about the new Visio!

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See more about Visio 2016 : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2015/10/01/the-new-visio-is-here-work-visually/

Filed Under: Visio, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Educational

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