Landscaping, in site plans, 597–601
Lasso tool, 41
Layers, 509–519
creating, 512–513
in Drawing Explorer, 511–512
in floor plans, 591, 594
importing from CAD, 527–528, 538–540
locking, 266
in multiple-page diagrams, 519
in network diagram topology, 420–423
nonprinting, 280
in onion diagrams, 352
preassigned, 510–511
shapes added to, 514–518
text on, 101–104
Layout. See Pages; Shapes, connecting
Line-Curve Connector shape, 62
Line jumps, in connecting shapes, 76–77
Lines, 700–710. See also Patterns
arcs converted to, 701–703
CAD conversion of, 542
drawing tools for, 690
end patterns for, 768–773
infinite, 703–704
locked, 99–100
offsetting, 723–727
patterns for, 53, 765–768
as shape extensions, 707–710
styles for, 739–743, 753–754
tangent on curves, 705–707
text on, 97
Linking
databases to diagrams, 787–800
limitations of, 787–788
managing shapes in, 795–800
by master shapes, 790–791
process of, 793–795
shortcut commands for, 791–792
by tables, 792–793
via ODBC Database command, 788–790
dependencies shown by, 381–382
to Microsoft Office functions, 230–233
OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) for, 227–229
Visio to PowerPoint presentations, 389, 395–401
Visio to Web, 158–162
Web site mapping protocols for, 452–453
Lists. See Tables and lists
Local code, 610
Locking
CAD drawings, 531–532
diagrams, 265–266
formatting shapes and, 750–751
groups, 731–733
layers, 266, 518
lines, 99–100