I did draw a network digram using a link to draw Visio diagram of vsphere using Powershell. It looks ok on the screen , but it was so small when i printed the drawing, the drawing only fit into 3X3  inches area instead of fitting into A4 paper. I tried to follow the link below, but all the drawing are going outside the grid area(- 4 "ruler area).
http://viziblr.com/news/2011/12/14/visio-ndash-resizing-multiple-shapes.html
Experts out there is there any way to fix the size without re-drawing it?

This is a question for visio, but should help me with all office products.  I have a working area on a network and i want for Visio... when i click browse to automatically open up this location on the network.  I have set the default file locations for visio.  refer to screenshot 1 for the procedure i did.

the browse button i am referring to is in screenshot 2.

i don't have to have it this wa,y but basically here is what i want to happen.  

When i open up visio and want to open a previously used file that is not in the recent history.... i want it to automatically browse to this network location.  

any good advice.

Has anyone had experience on converting PDF files to Visio 2016?  I lost my folder that had all my Campus Visio Diagrams but have the PDF versions.  Any help here would be appreciated.

Is there a way I can ask the user to enter Document shape data when first starting a document using a custom template? I would like to do this without macros and using shapesheet if possible but if not then its not the end of the world.

I have given the document some user defined shape data cells (eg. Document number, document date, author etc.) and then displayed this info in a number of shapes across the various pages of the document. I've referenced TheDoc! data in the shape cells on each page and set "askondrop" to true in the document shape data but this has not worked as i thought it might.

Thanks in advance.

Hi there,

User.msvSDContainerExcludedCategories does not seem to prevent the wrong objects becoming a member of a list.

I am creating a template for a standard type of drawing on Visio. I would like to create a list with two columns however this is not possible. To get around this I have taken some excellent advice from Scott Helmers and put two lists inside a container instead. This should just about do the trick but almost every time I try to drag and move the container, it ends up accidentally dropping into one of its lists and this messes up the document.

Please see the attached example and tell me where am i going wrong? I bet I've overlooked something very basic?! I have assigned the container the User.msvShapeCategories category of "Cubicle" and then excluded the "Cubicle" category from entering the lists using User.msvSDContainerExcludedCategories.

List-issue.vsd

Thanks for taking the time to look at my problem.

Dan.

Hi,

I am in the process of creating a visual IT process diagram using images. However, I am unable to find the type of images I need. I am building the diagram in Visio and can import the images if I had them or knew where to get them. I have attached a file with the type(s) of images I am seeking.

Many thanks in advance.

V/r
James
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Hi everyone,
First, thank you to all who offer up suggestions and advice to fellow I.T professionals. We all have different areas of expertise and experience so it is great to have a go-to area to seek answers & explanations, and also to hopefully help our peers.

I have a Visio 2010 Std application created on my SCCM 2012 server. I have been tasked with changing the product key it uses to activate on initial install. I don't want to change current installations, just use this new key for any new deployments.

I have it configured to use an MSP file with all of my customizations applied, including product key. What is the most appropriate way to go about changing the key to a different one? I have attempted simply editing the MSP to include the new key, but the application seems to still install using the old one. Do I make a new application and call it a day? Or should I be able to update my key without any issues?

Thanks so much in advance.

Here is Visio 2013. when drawing a line on its page, the line can be long 10 cm. but sometimes the line cannot be increased a little or decreased a little bit. for example the line 10 cm cannot be 9.8 or 10.2. I think this is resolution issue. How can we change or increase the resolution? Thank you

Hi
Experts!

I’m trying to download Visio Studio 2012 for desktop, but I’m failing on this link http://microsoft.com/visualstudio/downloads. Is there anyone with unbroken links, kindly share with me, I understand it’s free.

The purpose of the above is to create a window form that will be used to insert data into an MS access database, C# is able to do this properly, by using an insert SQL.

Regards

Chris

I am trying to install Microsoft Office 2016 Professional and Microsoft Visio 2016 Standard on a Windows 10 PC.  The installation for both fails with the message "Couldn't install" and gives Error Code: 30125-1011 (403).  This PC used to have Microsoft Office 2010 Professional installed on it, but it has been completely removed by doing a program uninstall.  I also ran the Microsoft Office Uninstall tool (o15-strremove.diagcab) AND manually deleted all keys in the registry under Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office.  I tried
 the suggestions on this page: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/error-code-30125-4-or-30125-1011-when-installing-office-7bfabec6-76be-4cde-880e-819a9c569612, except bringing the PC to another location to attempt the install - which is not possible.  I have turned off my third-party anti-virus & firewall protection (Kaspersky Internet Security).  I've rebooted countless times after each attempted solution, but it still refuses to install.  I am at a loss as to the cause or resolution.  Any ideas?

I know very little about vba. But am trying to tweak a macro for visio.

I want to tweak text but can't find anything on this:
 
            ' set font size and color, text alignment, border, fill and shadow
            .Cells("Char.Size").Formula = "10 pt"
            .Cells("Char.Color").Formula = 0     ' black
            .Cells("Para.HorzAlign") = 0         ' left justify
            .Cells("LinePattern").Formula = 0    ' none
            .Cells("FillPattern").Formula = 0    ' none
            .Cells("ShdwPattern").Formula = 0    ' none

1) Is there a table  that lists what numbers to use to change HorizAlign to get centered?

2) What if I wanted to bold the text?

3) there's a line after these for text (it's a table of contents):   .Text = arrPages(i, 1) & vbTab & CInt(arrPages(i, 2))

I'd love for the space between the page name and page number to be dotted  like:   Licenses.. . . . . . . .3

Do you know how I could get that?

Any idea why I can't find much about this on the web? I was googling cells syntax vba and pasting these lines into google. Didn't come up with anything.

Thanks!

When I knew very little about visio, in making network docs, I would jam way too much on 1 drawing, thinking I had to make an entire different file with a 2nd page.  DUH!

So I know a little more and love the seperate pages and being able to have a common background on all of them, etc.

Now, is there a way to make a table of contents page? A first page that lists the name of each page in the file?  Maybe updates automatically?  When you add another page / rearrange the order of pages, this page auto updates?

Hi I have to do system architecture diagrams for environment

Its very documentation heavy, have to cover VMware, Active Directory, 2008R2 forest mode and on premise Exchange 2010

Is there any guidelines people would recommend i realise its a general query

For instance are there free tools that provide mapping which i can use with visio

I have seen the free stencils Veeam provide and they look good

I am looking to do high level overview then go a bit deeper and also include support documentation which will be a lot more straightforward

Any pointers appreciated