Questions tagged [microsoft-visio-2016]

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Swimlanes background colour change

When I export my visio file to a webpage the background of the swimlanes changes from white to blue. I recently added more swimlanes and after exporting it as a webpage the new lanes are a lighter shade of blue. Is there a setting that I can change…
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Strip away individual shape colors/styles of Visio shapes and restore to theme default?

I have a Visio 2016 process flow document that someone else created. They individually set the colors (and other style attributes) for the shapes on the page. Is there any way to clear away all the individual colors/style-attributes from the objects…
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Visio 2016 Shape Protection cannot be removed

I am using a Visio 2016 Cross-Functional Flowchart template - Vertical layout. I added two swimlane columns to the two columns in the prebuilt template, then resized them so that they evenly fit within the 11 X 8.5 in size. However, when I try to…
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Visio 2016- shape lines automatically get thicker when shape size is increased - how do I disable this?

I would like to resize shapes in Visio 2016 without changing the line thickness of the shape. For example, in a circuit diagram, I would like to change the length of a Ground Shape or Transmission Line Shape while maintaining the current line…
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Pasting text with line-breaks into Visio shape strips line-breaks

In Visio 2016 I can't figure out how to paste text into a shape and retain line breaks. To reproduce: Create a shape or text box in Visio. Copy some multi-line text from Excel or a text file. Paste it into the Visio shape. All the line breaks are…
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Visio Printing Page Size and Printer

My drawing page size and Printer page size show they are the same in Visio printer page setup. Print preview screen is blank and when I print there is nothing on the page My goalis to have a A1 size readable print showing the complete flow chart. I…
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visio strangeness modifying shapesheet

I am trying to make a slight modification to Visio's Bent Arrow shapesheet. I want it to not draw the small line at the opposite end of the arrow. I opened the shapesheet, found the "LineTo" geometry that I wanted to remove, and changed this to…