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Diagramming software for Windows and part of Microsoft's Office suite. Visio can be used to create documents such as flowcharts, organization charts, network topologies, and software architecture diagrams.

Diagramming software for Windows and part of Microsoft's Office suite. Visio can be used to create documents such as flowcharts, organization charts, network topologies, and software architecture diagrams.

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Simplest way to design classic FSMs in Microsoft Visio?

I would like to create some basic Finite State Machines within Microsoft Visio. As an example, please take a look at the following: Image source: "DFAexample" by Cepheus - Own work. I tried to create my own stencil using simple ellipses, but the…
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Visio 2010, how to change the text to horizontal on a line that is vertically aligned?

I have a line that is pointing downwards. I have added some text description to this line and I would like it to be horizontally aligned, but I can't find a way to change the orientation. By default the text faces the same direction as the line…
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Add spacing around connector label in Microsoft Visio

How can I add some spacing around connector label in Microsoft Visio? Example (text of interest in red rectangle): should be: Adding spaces in the text only works for adding margin on the left, but doesn't seem to work for right margin. I use…
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Visio stencil isn't showing properly

I downloaded these stencils for Microsoft Visio 2013 and opened them in the application. For each icon I drag into the page (see image one), it shows up blue (see image two). What am I doing wrong?
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Change default shape protection properties in Visio

Every time I drop a shape into my diagram in Visio, the shape is created with Text and Height properties set as protected. Since I always have to change the text of the shape, I have to perform couple of extra clicks and disable the text protection,…
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Viewing and editing .vsd files

What free programs can I use to view and edit .vsd files? I am working with someone that does not switch to Visio and while I could use Microsoft's Visio Viewer to see what it's sent me, I cannot make any changes and send them back with this. I am…
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Remove unused areas of the page in Microsoft Visio diagram

How do I effectively remove all the unnecessary spaces on MS Visio? Related: Visio 2003: How to remove blank pages
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A digitizer for technical visio style drawings?

I am looking for advice and experience for using a digitizer for doing technical drawings. I do a lot of those when I do IT-integrations architechture and integrations dataflow drawings. And I am tired of moving Visio boxes around and spending…
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how can i generate a network diagram from external data in VISIO

i have 2 database tables: Components (this has fields id, name and componentType) Dependencies (this has fields id, componentId, dependencyComponentId) A component type can be a client, server or database I would like to generate a visio diagram…
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How to find out which Visio shape I am using?

I have a Visio diagram with a special shape, which I like very much. It looks like a rectangle with a fancy label. When I want to make a new diagram, the first thing I do is copy-paste this rectangle. However, what if I ever lose all my example…
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How to Change Width of Elements in a Visio Shape

I am trying to visualize my database structure using Visio 2016 and Crow's Foot Notation. Viso provides an Entity shape as shown below. I want to change the dimensions of the shape elements so that the contents are presented nicely. In this case,…
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Finding Visio Shapes

Is there some way of printing out ALL Visio shapes - I used to manually do a screen shot of all the shapes and then print it out and bind it so I could flip through the pages and pick out shapes that I needed. Was really handy when I didnt know the…
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Make a diagram using only connectable arrows

I want to make a simple diagram that consists of arrows. Each arrow has a label above it. I have this by just using a connector, making it straight, and telling the text to sit above it. Now I want to connect those arrows to one another and have…
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How can I draw right angled or square end in Visio?

I don't know if it's just me but in my Visio normally a line has rounded end as in 1. How can I draw right angled or square end as 2?
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change arrow direction in Visio at "beginning" shape only

Some of our Visio documentation includes fairly long connectors between shapes. I want to add an arrow at the beginning of an arrow that points away from the shape. But all of the arrow ends seem to point towards the shape. Is there a native way to…
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