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Scott A. Helmers
Partner, Harvard Computing Group
Microsoft Visio MVP

Background
Microsoft has added more enhancements and new features to Visio 2010 than to any release since they purchased the Visio product line in 2000. In addition, the community of developers building solutions on the Visio platform has continued to grow.

One of the best and most tightly integrated add-ins for Visio 2010 that I've seen is analystView from Global 360 ...
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A recent Visio zone question asked how to use the data in an Excel file to create a Visio Gantt chart -- and then to dynamically update the Gantt chart.

The good news is that the Viso Gantt Chart wizard can be automated. The bad news is that there doesn't appear to be a simple, direct way to accomplish the automatic updates.

However, the four steps described in this article will allow you to create an updated Gantt chart whenever you’d like and to do so with a single command!

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The Question
Several times in recent years, someone has posted a question at EE asking whether they could display the Windows directory structure – folders and subfolders – using Visio. When one person specifically asked about displaying directory info in an organization chart format, experts Scott and oldviking decided to give it a try, with the goal of producing something like this:

When you think about it, displaying a directory as an org chart is a very logical idea. After all, the Windows directory on a hard drive is a hierarchical structure and the Organization Chart...
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Have you ever created a custom Visio stencil – a collection of your own unique master shapes – and then created a drawing by dragging masters onto the drawing page? Have you then made changes to the stencil master and wondered why the shapes on the drawing page didn’t change?

Shouldn’t they? Aren’t the instances linked to the master??

The answer is yes – and no.

A bit of Visio terminology before we begin:
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I am using Powerpoint 2000 SP3 on Windows XP SP3.

Please see the attached powerpoint file.

How do I get the bullets to the left of the left margin. (In other words, the first character in paragraph 1 should be the letter "P" and not the bullet itself.)
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I am using Microsoft Visio 2000 on Windows XP SP3.

Please see the attached (visio.jpg).

I need to show & hide what I have circled in red. I'm not sure what that section of the screen is called. It does not seem to be a toolbar.

Thanks.
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