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Microsoft Office Visio 2003 Inside Out

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Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visio 2003

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Learning the Visio language

Microsoft Office Diagram Gallery vs. Visio

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New drawing task pane

Troubleshooting
The Shapes window splits the stencil windows in two

Troubleshooting
Shape names are not readable on stencils

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Saving your stencils

Troubleshooting
Opening a Visio drawing file causes a message about macros to appear

Opening a File in a Document Management System

Chapter 2: Creating a Diagram

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Altering your snap settings

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Shape search tips

Troubleshooting
Search For Shapes doesn’t locate a shape that’s used in a diagram

Troubleshooting
A shape cannot be selected

Troubleshooting
Subselecting a shape in a group causes gray box handles to appear

About the Pasteboard

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Creating Line and File Patterns

Troubleshooting
A shape cannot be stretched or resized

Troubleshooting
A shape won’t accept formatting

Troubleshooting
The Color Schemes command is missing or nothing happens
when a color scheme is applied

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Setting shape shadows

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Background shapes create background pages

Chapter 3: Connecting Shapes

Troubleshooting
Shapes won’t stay connected, and the handles don’t turn red

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Control handle tips

Troubleshooting
All the options are unavailable on the Placement tab in the Behavior dialog box

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Undoing unwanted shape layout

Troubleshooting
The Lay Out Shapes command doesn’t lay out certain shapes in the diagram

Glue in the ShapeSheet Window

Chapter 4: Adding Text to Shapes and Diagrams

Troubleshooting
Text appears smoother than in Visio 2000, but it’s not as legible at different zooms

Troubleshooting
When you type in a shape, Visio zooms in so that the text is legible,
but then when you work in the drawing, you can’t read the text anymore

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Text-only shapes

Text Tools Explained

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Sorry, one per customer

Troubleshooting
Is there a way to distinguish “model space” text from
“paper space” text as some CAD programs can do?

Typing Special Characters

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Inside tab settings

Inside the Text Display in Visio 2003

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Sending callouts to other Office files

Troubleshooting
A title block shape resizes unevenly when stretched

Using Custom Formulas in Fields

Chapter 5: Using Visio Diagrams on the Web

More Web Options in Visio Professional

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Make any shape a navigation shape

Troubleshooting
When you click a link to a Visio diagram,
Internet Explorer opens instead of Visio

VML Graphics in Browsers Other Than
Internet Explorer

Troubleshooting
An error appears when you try to rename a file
created by the Save As Web Page command

Troubleshooting
In Netscape Navigator, multiple hyperlinks appear
on the shape but they all jump to the same place

Troubleshooting
Visio displays HTML code instead of graphics

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Creating a VML Graphic

Automating Web Page Generation

Chapter 6: Storing Data in Diagrams

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Inside custom properties

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The Custom Properties window and page properties

Creating Configurable Custom Properties

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Inside custom property sets

Troubleshooting
After editing property names in a set,
the changes do not appear in the Custom Properties
window for selected shapes

Troubleshooting
When running a report, Visio displays a message that no
shapes had the selected properties or satisfied the report selection criteria

Chapter 7: Using Visio Diagrams with Other Programs

Visio Has a Viewer!

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Import your text from Word

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Don’t worry about losing your layer settings in embedded drawings

Troubleshooting
You receive an error when you edit a linked or embedded diagram

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.VSS and .VST files

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Save an embedded diagram as a Visio file

Troubleshooting
You need to share a Visio diagram with someone who doesn’t have Visio

Troubleshooting
Some shapes don’t appear when exported to other formats

Troubleshooting
An imported image doesn’t appear correctly in an embedded diagram

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How Visio imports an image

Troubleshooting
Quality is poor with an imported graphic file

Troubleshooting
An imported graphic cannot be edited in Visio as expected

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TWAIN and WIA interfaces

Troubleshooting
The Insert Picture From Scanner Or Camera command won’t work

Chapter 8: Saving and Printing Your Work

Saving a Preview of a Diagram

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Locking layers

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The printer paper size option

Troubleshooting
The Print command causes a page orientation error

Troubleshooting
Your drawing prints on multiple pages, and you want it to fit on one page

Troubleshooting
Enlarging a drawing causes unnecessary blank printed pages

Troubleshooting
Text in the drawing looks different than it did in previous versions of Visio

Troubleshooting
Text in the drawing file won’t display in a transparent color

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Using nonprinting layers

Troubleshooting
Some shapes don’t appear in the printed drawing

Troubleshooting
Saving a file causes it to print

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Using a slide show to preview your print job

Troubleshooting
Printed text looks different from text on the screen

Chapter 9: Creating Flowcharts

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Use the generic Flowchart Shapes shape

Troubleshooting
Connectors go haywire when using the Lay Out Shapes command with a flowchart

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Categories of a fishbone diagram

Troubleshooting
After adding a background to a flowchart, text on the connectors appears with an obvious box behind it

Chapter 10: Visualizing an Organization

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PowerPoint’s organization chart tool

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Changes to the Organization Chart toolbar

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Other uses for the Organization Chart template

Connecting to the Organization Chart Wizard Using Automation

Troubleshooting
The organization chart looks too crowded or the spaces
between the shapes are uneven

Troubleshooting
The automatic layout options have no effect on the organization chart

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Panning and Zooming with Hyperlinks

Chapter 11: Displaying Relationships and Processes in Block Diagrams

Troubleshooting
When moving a tree branch, the entire tree structure moves instead

Troubleshooting
Text doesn’t fit in an onion layer

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Add some perspective

Chapter 12: Tracking Projects and Schedules

Troubleshooting
After typing a milestone or interval description, the date disappeared

Troubleshooting
When you try to subselect a calendar shape to format it, an error message appears

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Formatting lines

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Change the chart’s calendar

Troubleshooting
Visio doesn’t align simultaneous tasks correctly

Troubleshooting
An error appears when you select a task bar shape

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Clean up a timeline

Chapter 13: Adding Impact to Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations

Inside Out
Judging text readability

Troubleshooting
You need text in Visio to be a specific color that doesn’t show up well on a slide

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Pasting from Visio into PowerPoint

Troubleshooting
The message to update links gets in the way of the presentation

Using PowerPoint Clip Art and Images in Visio

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Change the Full Screen view background

Chapter 14: Creating Network Diagrams

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Adding connection points

Troubleshooting
When typing to replace a label on a network shape,
Visio creates a new label instead of overwriting the existing one

Troubleshooting
A connector line shows through text even though the text background is solid

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Continuing a diagram

Troubleshooting
You can’t find the Property Reporting Wizard used to create network reports in Visio 2000

About the Visio 2000 Network Wizards

Chapter 15: Planning and Mapping Web Sites

Troubleshooting
Some shapes in the site map appear dimmed

Troubleshooting
The List and Filter windows don’t display a type of link that the Web site includes

Troubleshooting
The site map doesn’t display all the levels that were
specified in the Generate Site Map dialog box

Troubleshooting
The Web site’s navigational hierarchy is not preserved
in the site map that Visio creates

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HTTP

Locating Links Within VBScript or JavaScript

Chapter 16: Measuring and Dimensioning with Precision

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Inserting a new page

Syst me Internationale d’Unites (SI) Shape

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Spatial and temporal units

Specifying Measurement Units in Visio Dialog Boxes

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Ruler subdivisions and nudge

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Local coordinates

Troubleshooting
A shape won’t snap or glue to a guide or guide point

Troubleshooting
The Distribute Shapes command doesn’t arrange shapes precisely enough

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Using the degree symbol

Layers for CAD Users

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Deleting empty layers

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Working with the active layer

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Nonprinting or locked layers

Chapter 17: Using CAD Drawings in Visio

Troubleshooting
The CAD file does not import as expected in Visio

Troubleshooting
After importing a DWG file, the drawing scale cannot be changed

Troubleshooting
When you add Visio shapes to an inserted CAD drawing, they’re the wrong size

Troubleshooting
The imported drawing can’t be selected or right-clicked

Troubleshooting
The inserted CAD drawing can’t be repositioned or rotated on the page

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Changes in the CAD converters

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Converting selectively

Troubleshooting
Converted CAD objects become ungrouped

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Using template files

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Using blocks and master shapes

Troubleshooting
Converted CAD objects are no longer solid

Chapter 18: Laying Out Floor and Site Plans

Office Layout in Visio Professional

Solution Migration: Visio Technical Versus
Visio Professional

Troubleshooting
Copied shapes look out of proportion when pasted into a scaled drawing

Tracking Assets and Other Data in a Space Plan

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Calculating shape area and perimeter

Troubleshooting
Walls don’t connect correctly

Troubleshooting
Doors are not oriented correctly, and I can’t rotate them

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Tracking hardware specifications

Troubleshooting
When you add shapes to a floor plan, you accidentally
move walls and other structural shapes

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Rotating fixtures

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No more prompts

Chapter 19: Diagramming and Documenting Databases

Troubleshooting
The Database menu is no longer visible

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Output window options

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Integration with Visual Studio .NET

Troubleshooting
Visio does not create the foreign key when you connect parent and child tables

Role Text and Object Role Modeling

Chapter 20: Diagramming Software Systems

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Enterprise Application and Window User Interface templates

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More about UML

Troubleshooting
The UML menu is no longer visible

About UML

Troubleshooting
The Model Explorer is no longer visible

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Activity and statechart diagrams

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Class specification and body

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Extending UML

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Visual Studio .NET reverse engineering

Troubleshooting
Some elements of the C++ project were not reverse engineered correctly

Chapter 21: Customizing Shapes and Solutions

Troubleshooting
The option to open a file as an original or copy,
or as read-only, seems to be missing

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Workspace and Read Only options

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XML interface documentation

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Saving as HTML versus XML

Troubleshooting
The Find Shape tool does not locate master shapes that have been customized

Copyrighting Masters

Inside Out
Enabling and disabling VBA

Chapter 22: Drawing and Editing to Create New Shapes

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Visual feedback in Visio

Identifying Other Visio Objects

How to Fill Open Shapes

Troubleshooting
When closing a line segment, the line stretches instead

Troubleshooting
You can’t select the vertex you want to change
in the ShapeSheet window

Inside Out
Drawing aids vs. shape extension lines

Troubleshooting
An arc’s eccentricity handles don’t show up

Inside Out
Using error tolerance

What’s Constructive Solid Geometry Doing in a Nice Place Like Visio?

Inside Out
Group ShapeSheets

Troubleshooting
Visio displays a message when ungrouping

Troubleshooting
When you subselect a shape in a group, you can’t reposition the shape

Inside Out
Unlocking with care

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What the alignment box is for

Chapter 23: Defining Styles, Patterns, and Colors

Troubleshooting
Nothing happens when a style is applied to a shape

Troubleshooting
When you copy shapes to another Visio drawing file, their formatting changes

Inside Out
True color (32-bit) displays

Inside Out
Checking for local formatting

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Inside text, line, and fill

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Seeing and editing patterns

Troubleshooting
A custom line end pattern doesn’t appear when you apply it to a line

Troubleshooting
When you copy shapes to another Visio drawing file or
Microsoft Office document, they change color

Chapter 24: Connecting Diagrams and Databases

Inside Out
For those without Access

Inside Out
Database Export Wizard

Troubleshooting
The Add button is not available in the Export To Database dialog box

Exporting to a Specific Excel Worksheet

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Primary key field

Troubleshooting
Copying a linked shape either copies
the same link or doesn’t copy any link

Generating Shapes from a Database

Troubleshooting
Deleting records from a linked Excel worksheet causes an error

Chapter 25: Making Shapes Smart

Inside Out
Showing the ShapeSheet properties

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Default formulas

Learning to Write SmartShapes Formulas

Displaying a Help File for a Shape

Troubleshooting
The Custom option is not available, or nothing happens
when you select a double-click action

Chapter 26: Managing Facilities with Space Plans

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The Resources stencil

Inside Out
Converting a CAD drawing for viewing

Troubleshooting
The Plan menu does not appear on the menu bar,
or commands on the Plan menu seem to be missing

Troubleshooting
After adding space shapes to a floor plan,
all the furniture and other shapes have green stripes

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Spaces in Visio floor plans

Troubleshooting
Text looks fuzzy after adding Boundary shapes to a floor plan

Inside Out
Exporting data from other formats

Troubleshooting
The Refresh Data command does not update
the information in the space plan

Troubleshooting
Refreshing the data in the space plan overwrites
changes that were made to the diagram

Troubleshooting
After you have added network or other shapes to a space plan,
they don’t appear in the Explorer window

Troubleshooting
Shapes and text in a space plan are too large

Chapter 27: Diagramming for Mechanical, Electrical, and Process Engineering

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Sizing and positioning shapes

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Shape-to-shape glue

Where Is the Netlist Generator?

Inside Out
Dragging pipelines onto the page

Troubleshooting
A new shape in a PFD or P&ID does not show up in the
Component Explorer or Category Explorer

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Sharing custom property sets

Troubleshooting
An equipment shape in a P&ID or PFD no longer works
—its tag and other information have been deleted

Appendix A: Installing Visio 2003

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Template versions

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The Activation Wizard