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how-to articles - Shapes

how-to articles - Shapes

How to search for shapes and how to save the search results as a custom stencil in Visio 2003
Describes how to create a custom stencil from shapes that are returned in the search results in Visio 2003.
How to create flexible organization charts in Visio
Describes how to create organization charts in Visio.
How to print comments that are inserted by reviewers when you use the Track Markup feature in Visio 2010, in Visio 2007, or in Visio 2003
Contains a macro that you can use to print comments that are added by reviewers when you use the Track Markup feature in in Visio 2010, in Visio 2007, or in Visio 2003.

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Description of Visio 2003 Service Pack 1
Describes the issues that are fixed in Visio 2003 SP1.
Description of the Visio 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: October 21, 2004
Discusses an issue where images are not sized correctly when you use a PostScript custom page size. This issue occurs when you print from Visio 2003 to an Acrobat Distiller printer. Also provides a information about a hotfix that resolves this issue.
Description of the Visio 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: January 9, 2005
Describes the issue that is fixed in the Visio 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package that was released on January 9, 2005.

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Troubleshooting - Shapes

Troubleshooting - Shapes

Both Curly and Straight Bracket Interval Shapes in Your Timeline Drawing Are Incorrectly Changed to Block Intervals
In the either the Chinese-language or the Japanese-language versions of Microsoft Office Visio 2003, you may experience one or both of the following symptoms when you try to change the interval type of bracket interval shapes in your timeline drawing:...
The colors of transparent shapes in your Visio drawing are inconsistent when you print to a PostScript printer
Describes how the colors vary among transparent shapes that have the same properties when you print a Visio document to a PostScript printer. To work around this problem, you can use a Printer Control Language (PCL) driver for your printer.
Shape data is not sorted in numeric order in the shape data set in Visio
When you apply a shape data set to a shape such as a rectangle in Microsoft Office Visio 2007 or you apply a custom property set to a shape in Microsoft Office Visio 2003, the shape data and the custom properties are not sorted in numeric order in the...

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