How to wrap ShapeSheet fields

[Sterling]

Hi everyone,

I am looking at my ShapeSheet, and a few of the fields are very, very
long, so that you have to scroll to the right to read all of the
information.

I assume that there is a way to enable the field to wrap around, to
obviate the need of scrolling right and then back to the left.

Could somebody please tell me how to accomplish that?

Thank you.

Sterling
using Visio Professional 2003

 

[JuneTheSecond]

Hi, Sterling.

I used to copy the formula to Note Pad, edit and pase back to the shape sheet.
When I had to make more difficult formulass, I mada a tool to manage the
formulas for only user-defined cells.
Though it is not perfect, I've overcome the difficulties.
The outline is written here.
http://www.geocities.jp/visualcalculation/english/index.html#Manager


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Best Regards.

JuneTheSecond
Now, visual calculation is more visual.
http://www.geocities.jp/visualcalculation/english/index.html

 

[John Goldsmith_Visio_MVP]

That's nice work. I like the idea of removing the 'User.' part of the cell
references.

Sterling - You might also be interested in this post on Visio 2010, which
includes the feature you describe.

http://visualsignals.typepad.co.uk/...pesheet-intellisense-and-formula-editing.html

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith (Visio MVP)
www.visualSignals.typepad.co.uk
www.visualSignals.co.uk

 

[JuneTheSecond]

Thanks John.

Just now I found in Visio2010 preview an editor like the notepad.
It may be a good news for Sterling.

 

[Sterling]

Hi everyone,

I am looking at my ShapeSheet, and a few of the fields are very, very
long, so that you have to scroll to the right to read all of the
information.

I assume that there is a way to enable the field to wrap around, to
obviate the need of scrolling right and then back to the left.

Could somebody please tell me how to accomplish that?

Thank you.

Sterling
using Visio Professional 2003

Hi everyone,

Thank you all for your comments.

Maybe I was not expressing my question correctly. Some of the fields
(for example, "Character," "Paragraph," and "Tab") are very long, so
they cause me to have to scroll way to the right.

Sterling

 

[John Goldsmith_Visio_MVP]

Hi,

Do you mean that the cell widths are overly long?

You can position your mouse over the edge of a cell and then left-mouse
button down and drag to change the cell widths.

I have had an issue in the past when a cell some became several screens wide
and no amount of dragging would return it to the correct position. If
that's your issue, (which I would doubt as I've only come across it once)
then there's a registry key that you can reset, but that should be your last
resort.

Let me know if I've understood correctly.

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith (Visio MVP)
www.visualSignals.typepad.co.uk
www.visualSignals.co.uk

 

[Sterling]

Hi,

Do you mean that the cell widths are overly long?

You can position your mouse over the edge of a cell and then left-mouse
button down and drag to change the cell widths.

I have had an issue in the past when a cell some became several screens
wide and no amount of dragging would return it to the correct position.
If that's your issue, (which I would doubt as I've only come across it
once) then there's a registry key that you can reset, but that should be
your last resort.

Let me know if I've understood correctly.

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith (Visio MVP)
www.visualSignals.typepad.co.uk
www.visualSignals.co.uk

Hi John,

It's not that the cell widths are too long, but that there are so many
cells that I have to scroll way over to the right.

What I need is that there not be so many cells on a line.

Sterling

 

[John Goldsmith_Visio_MVP]

I see. No, alas that's a fixed structure I'm afraid.

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith (Visio MVP)
www.visualSignals.typepad.co.uk
www.visualSignals.co.uk

 

[David J Parker [MVP Visio]]

Of course, you can change the widths of the cells by clicking and dragging
the header dividers.