http://www.visioblog.sandrila.co.uk/ 2008-05-17T02:02:38+01:00 http://www.visioblog.sandrila.co.uk/ http://www.visioblog.sandrila.co.uk/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-05-15T22:55:12+01:00 paul http://www.visioblog.sandrila.co.uk/doku.php?id=start&rev=1210888512&do=diff A while ago on the microsoft.public.visio.general newsgroup someone asked for a shape that looked like PacMan :- create shapes like this -> quarteredCircle When creating room or office layouts the wall shape shows a dimension after the shape is dropped on the page and at any time the shape is selected. This can be turned off - instructions -> wallDimensions text/html 2008-05-13T02:20:44+01:00 paul http://www.visioblog.sandrila.co.uk/doku.php?id=walldimensions&rev=1210641644&do=diff The dimension shown on a wall shape when it is selected can be turned off permanently, or it can be turned on permanently! Here is how. * menu View -> Drawing Explorer Window * in the Foreground Pages section look for your wall shape * among the Wall's shapes there will be a Shape.7 * right-click and select edit ShapeSheet * in the User-defined cells section find the cell “User.Hide” and set text/html 2008-05-05T12:58:18+01:00 paul http://www.visioblog.sandrila.co.uk/doku.php?id=quarteredcircle&rev=1209988698&do=diff This is a simplified version of the standard pie-chart shape, I've removed everything except the four quadrants. You can * rotate the whole shape * change the line and fill patterns of each segment individually * each quadrant can also be individually moved around the circle to create non-quadrants of other than 90°.