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You can select objects and do a Send to Back. There is also the option of placing the information on a background page. There is also the possibility of adding the shapes to a layer and then send that to the back. John... Visio MVP - Visio.MVPs.org

It would depend on your flavour of Visio. In 2010 it is under Software and Database which is not available in Visio 2001 Standard. John... Visio MVP - Visio.MVPs.org

Layers are just a way of relating items so their visibility can be controlled, it does not move the location of the items. John... Visio MVP - Visio.MVPs.org

The normal behaviour is for the text to wrap. truncation is not easy to do. So where did you find the WBS stencil (and which version of Visio are you running?) John... Visio MVP - Visio.MVPs.org

Visio likes to have ends connected, so that is why you have the odd tail, you may be able to just move the end around to eliminate the bend, but the next time you move the shape the line is attached to, the tail may reappear. So, what are you trying to do with a line that is only connected at...

Why are creating a slideshow in Visio rather than PowerPoint? Having said that, one of the other Visio MVPs is famous for creating slideshows in Visio. He uses hyperlinks to get to the next page if it is not in the order he wants. John... Visio MVP - Visio.MVPs.org

Take a look at hyperlinks http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio-help/add-a-hyperlink-HP001231592.aspx John... Visio MVP - Visio.MVPs.org

Lines can have line ends, both at the tip and the tail. Check out the Line Format dialog. For some reason, I do not think that that is your problem. Are the tails of the lines actually connected to another shape? John... Visio MVP - Visio.MVPs.org

That was one of the reasons I created the list at http://visio.mvps.org/3rdparty.htm Of course, rather than copy the stencils I decided to just provide links so the original creators get to retain their Intellectual Property rights. The downside is that a number of those links are broken and...

I am not sure why your links are breaking, but if you assign a unique key, like a product id to a shape data and then use that product id in the spreadsheet, you should be able to automatically link the data based on the key. |This is under the data menu. I have been able to do this a few times...

Eith the new ribbon some of the old things are hard to find. Chsnging names does not help either. Rather than comments and annotation, think screen tips and callouts. In the Insert tab of the ribbon, take a look at Callouts and Screen Tips. John... Visio MVP - Visio.MVPs.org

Sorry for the delay. LinkSys is a division of Cisco. Did you try http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/prod_cat_visios.html ? Since most network diagrams due not use most of the intelligence of Visio, your solution works just fine. As you outlined, you only need to place a picture within a...

With a non standard shape, you have the best approach, but make sure the shape is closed. Otherwise,it will not be fillable. It is possible to fill an open shape, but you will have to edit the shape's shapesheet and set the NoFill value of the Geometry sections to false. The shape will fill as...

Why do you want to draw four lines and then join them? The normal way in Visio is to drop a shape from a stencil. When you drop a shape, you can assign the dropped shape to a variable and se that variable to update the shape. In your macro, the UndoScope lines can be ignored...

Okay, start with the shape you want to be first and click send to back. Then repeat for all the shapes. You can fine tune the order by clicking send back or send forward. John... Visio MVP - Visio.MVPs.org