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Humans are visual creatures, so it isn’t surprising that we want tovisualize our ideas, designs, and final products and communicatethem graphically. I

Exploring the Visio 2007 InterfaceThe Visio interface makes it easy to access the features you use. By default, the Visio environmentpositions menus a

commands are available on the Standard or Formatting toolbars, which appear by default. Sometemplates include specialized toolbars, which float in the

The Shapes WindowYou drag and drop shapes from the stencils in the Shapes window onto a drawing page. TheShapes window docks by default on the left, a

FIGURE 1-5You can dock stencils in the Shapes window or float them on the screen.FIGURE 1-6You can exploit the hierarchy of drawing components in the

The Size & Position WindowThe Size & Position window is particularly useful when you work on scaled drawings such asbuilding plans, where prec

What’s New in Visio 2007?Visio 2007 has dramatically simplified connecting shapes, formatting diagrams, and visualizingdata. As always, Visio 2007 inc

New and Improved Templates and StencilsSee Chapter 42 for a guide to all the Visio 2007 templates and the categories in which you can findthem. The fo

New Homes for Features in Visio 2007Microsoft loves to move things around. Here’s how to find some of your old but relocated favorites:nThe Color Sche

You can draw precise plans to scale with Visio. Visio Standard supports only basic building plans,whereas Visio Professional supports a variety of arc

Visio stencils are categorized collections of shapes. To continue the house analogy, a Visio stencil islike a catalog of cedar logs and connecting bra

To learn about how to define properties and behaviors for shapes, see Chapter 33.In Visio, predrawn shapes are called masters, which are stored and ca

When you want to differentiate the predecessor and successor for two connectedshapes, such as in a data flow diagram or project schedule, make sure yo

Using GlueSimilar to glue in real life, Visio glue makes things stick together. Visio glue comes in two varieties:shape-to-shape and point-to-point. S