Square One

K

Komonoway

I've been working with Visio for about a month now and it has such incredible
potential the simple flaws in its logic have become terribly apparent and
frustrating.

When you design a program to generate flowcharts you usually have 2
components:
Boxes and Text.

The intuitive thing is I originally have this chart sketched on paper, I
know what it's supposed to look like, so I open up my software, throw boxes
everywhere I want them, shape one or two to the right size and populate them
with text. So what probably 99% of every user on this planet wants, is all
the boxes to look the same and the text to fit.

However Visio doesn't do that easily...why?

Please make a service pack that includes a "Size all boxes like this one"
button...and the user could click on that ideal box and a "Size text to fit"
button.

Two of the most obvious things from square one....but hey...that's why we've
got these forums.

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J

John... Visio MVP

Komonoway said:
I've been working with Visio for about a month now and it has such
incredible
potential the simple flaws in its logic have become terribly apparent and
frustrating.

When you design a program to generate flowcharts you usually have 2
components:
Boxes and Text.

The intuitive thing is I originally have this chart sketched on paper, I
know what it's supposed to look like, so I open up my software, throw
boxes
everywhere I want them, shape one or two to the right size and populate
them
with text. So what probably 99% of every user on this planet wants, is
all
the boxes to look the same and the text to fit.

However Visio doesn't do that easily...why?

Please make a service pack that includes a "Size all boxes like this one"
button...and the user could click on that ideal box and a "Size text to
fit"
button.

Two of the most obvious things from square one....but hey...that's why
we've
got these forums.

----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...0619c620ae9&dg=microsoft.public.visio.general


If you change the master, all the shapes that use the master will change to
match.

Alternatively, you can select the shapes and use the Size / Position Window
and change all the shapes at the same time.

John... Visio MVP
 

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