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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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How to modify margin spaces for Visio drawing when using 'Auto fit to Drawing'?

I use 'Fit to Drawing' in Visio a lot. The resized page width fit my drawing objects neatly though putting some extra page margin spaces that I don't want to have. How can I remove them?
Nam G VU
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How do I make Visio header rows behave like Excel header rows?

A few times when I was working in Excel with documents that had large amounts of data, as you scroll down, the header (first cell in the column) stayed visible. I don't remember telling it to do this, but it's behavior I want. How do I get this same…
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How can I find/create a curved bar (similar to the curved arrow)

In visio 2010 there is a shape in the blocks called a 'curved arrow', which allows you to bend an arrow 90 degrees with a nice curved corner. I would like to create an 'S' curve, but there is no equivalent curved bar that I can use with which to…
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Visio: Add arrows to Tree like connector

Problem: I am trying to add arrows to tree connectors and can't figure out how to do it. Troubleshooting so far: I have tried the functions in the ribbon as well as right click. I was able to select the arrows, but they don't appear on the…
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Visio Add More Shapes For UML Diagrams

How do you add more shapes to the Visio Diagrams? There were some shapes I was looking for in the Sequence Diagram that aren't there. Also, are there add-ins that provide these extra shapes?
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Visio 2010 Shape Data

I just started using Visio last week and have network items mapped out and their information entered in the shape data for each item. My question is this, is there a way to export the shape data that I entered in to an excel spread sheet. For…
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What is the keyboard shortcut for "Fit page to current window" in Visio 2010?

It used to be Ctrl + k in older versions of Visio, now that command closes the current document which, as you can imagine, is incredibly annoying after the 10th or 11th time.
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How do I resize tables in Visio 2010?

Create a Database Model Diagram Reverse Engineer a database (Database Tab, Reverse Engineer). Once the diagram is created, how do you resize the tables? I've tried: Enable Developer mode, Choose Protection, Choose None. When I do that, I'm given…
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Paste Format to Object Inside Group

In Visio 2010, how do you paste formats to objects inside a group? Attempting to paste formats to an object inside a group applies them to all objects in the group.
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Insert into Visio drawing into another Visio 2010 document

I have two Visio 2010 documents. One contains one tab with a floor plan. The other contains multiple tabs, also with floor plans on each tab. I want to incorporate the first Visio document as a new tab in the second document. I've tried CTRL-A,…
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Publish Visio 2010 Document to Web with Multiple Hyperlinks per Object

We have a process flow document that requires multiple hyperlinks per object. It appears that the only the VML web format supports this. Since we upgraded to Visio 2010, the Save As... HTML format dialog box is missing the publish button. We need…
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Visio connnectors stuck in DB Mode

I created a Visio diagram using the template Software and Database / Database Model Diagram. I created a few database diagrams manually. Now I want to add some more tabs/pages for data flow diagrams. I inserted a new page, dropped on couple of…
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How can I rotate a visio 2010 page in 90 degrees without using the mouse that rotates inaccurately?

How can I rotate a Visio 2010 page 90° without using the mouse? Using the mouse takes too long and is inaccurate.
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Is it possible to create "synonyms" of entities?

PowerAMC/PowerDesigner allows you to create "graphical synonyms" of underlying entities allowing you to place the same entity twice (or more) on a diagram. This is great when, somehow, an entity must be linked to two others that happen to be on…
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visio 2010: extract shapes names

I was given a visio drawing of some college's architecture and want to find the name of the shapes he used there in order to save myself the trouble of locating his drawing and copying his shapes. i also don't want to make a stencil just for these…
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