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 | How-to articles - Visio 2003- How to activate a perpetual license of Visio
Describes how to activate the perpetual license of Visio. This includes how to active the perpetual license by using the Internet or by using the telephone. You can also skip the activation and activate your license at a later time. - Information about the Microsoft Activation Wizard Privacy Policy for Visio
Describes the Activation Wizard Privacy Policy for Visio. The description includes why and when you should activate your product. You can activate your product on the Internet or by telephone. - How to turn off the AutoCorrect and AutoFormat features in Visio
Describes how to turn off the AutoCorrect and AutoFormat features in Visio. - How to create a custom template for Visio
Describes how to create a custom template in Visio. You can create a template to base all the drawings on when you want to create multiple drawing files that need a consistent look. - Description of digital certificates for Visio 2002 and for later versions of Visio
Explains the relationship between digital certificates and digitally signed Visio macros, signed programs, or Microsoft ActiveX controls. Also explains why we have to use digital signatures and how to get digital certificates. - How to send a Visio document in e-mail
Describes how to send a file from Visio in e-mail. - Sample VBA macro to send a drawing to a specific printer in Visio
This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro to specify a printer or a plotter, and to send the drawing to that device. - How to reduce the size of a Visio drawing file in Visio
Describes how to reduce the size of a .vsd file in Visio 2007, Visio 2003, and in Visio 2000. - How to customize, create, and restore Visio menus in Visio
This article describes how to create a new menu, customize an existing menu, and restore built-in menus. - How to create a custom fill pattern by using a bitmap image in Visio
This article explains how to create a custom fill pattern by using a bitmap image in Microsoft Office Visio. The custom fill pattern can then be applied to shapes in a Visio drawing. - How to resize shapes in a Visio drawing
This article describes how to size or resize shapes within a Microsoft Office Visio drawing. - How to link a Visio drawing to a specific region in an Excel worksheet
Explains how to embed a link in a Visio drawing to a named region in an Excel worksheet. Introduces the concepts of linking and embedding. - Sample macro to duplicate a page in Visio
This article explains how to duplicate a page, along with the shapes on that particular page, by using Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications. The sample code also provides an example of how to use the Page.PageSheet property to get access to a page's... - How to resize a page in a Visio drawing
Describes how to change or resize the drawing page in Visio. You can use the CTRL key and mouse or the Page Setup dialog box to resize the drawing page in Visio. - How to insert a new page into a drawing in Visio
Explains how to use the Page Tab or the Insert menu to insert new blank pages into your Visio drawing. - Description of the AutoCorrect feature in Visio
Describes the AutoCorrect features in Microsoft Visio 2002 and in later versions of Visio. - The Dsofile.dll files lets you edit Office document properties when you do not have Office installed
Explains that Dsofile.dll is a sample COM component written in Visual C++ that lets developers working in Visual Basic or other languages read and edit OLE document properties for Microsoft Office documents without Office installed. - How to display custom properties as text in Visio
This article explains how to display text that is derived from a shape's custom properties in Microsoft Visio. In this article, the "process" shape from the Basic flowchart stencil is used for illustration purposes. If you use an alternate shape, make... - How to use the text editing ruler in Visio
Describes how to use the text ruler to adjust the left, right, and first indents, and to specify tab stops in Visio. - Improvements in the Find feature in Visio
The Find feature has been improved in Microsoft Office Visio to allow searching within custom properties, shape names, and user-defined cells in addition to shape text. - Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility
Describes the updated version of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility. Provides a link where you can download the utility. - How to view the document stencil in Visio
Describes how to display the document stencil in Microsoft Visio 2002 and in later versions of Visio. - How to visit a Web site when you double-click a shape in Visio
Describes how to use a shape's EventDblClick event to locate a hyperlink when you double-click a shape in Visio. - How to turn off personalized menus in Visio
This article describes how to turn off the personalized menus in Microsoft Office Visio. When you first start Visio or any other program that is in Microsoft Office XP, in Microsoft Office 2003, or in 2007 Microsoft Office, the menus and the toolbars... - How the self-repair feature works in Visio
Describes the self-repair feature in Microsoft Visio.
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