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Visio: Shapes
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When you link data to shapes in a diagram, Office Visio 2007 automatically populates the properties (... known as shape data) for each shape with its corresponding data. To see all the properties for a shape and corresponding data values, right-click a shape on the drawing page, and then, on the shortcut menu, click Properties. Or, on the View menu, click Shape Data Window to display the window. Then click a shape to see its shape data in the Shape Data window.
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A Visio newsgrouper recently pointed out that in Visio, inserted images have a different default text position than normal shapes. For images, the text is located at the bottom of the shape, and text “grows” downward.
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The new AutoConnect feature in Office Visio 2007 takes the work out of connecting shapes. This new feature automatically connects, evenly distributes, and accurately aligns shapes for you, and requires only a couple of clicks.
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Spend any time with Visio and you'll find yourself wondering how glue works. In the real world, it's pretty straightforward: put glue between two things and they'll stick. Although glue is used for sticking shapes together in Visio, the metaphor ends there.
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You will learn how to cut Visio shapes into pieces and union the bits together to form new shapes. You'll learn how to add parameters to shapes, and fill them with Excel-like ShapeSheet formulas create sophisticated graphical behavior. And you'll create a context menu that resets the shape with a click of the mouse.
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Underpinning the Storyboard library is the layer feature in Visio. Layers can contain shapes and be shown or hidden. Showing a layer causes all of the shapes that are within the layer to be made visible. Hiding a layer hides the shapes it contains; ... if the shapes are part of another layer that is visible, they will still appear. Any number of layers can be created on a page, and shapes may be associated with a single layer or with multiple layers.
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