Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Inside Out

Chapter 3. Connecting Shapes

Adding Connectors to Your Diagrams

Laying Out Shapes Automatically

Adding Connection Points to Shapes

Controlling Connections with Glue

With Microsoft Office Visio 2003 drawings and diagrams you can communicate all sorts of information about ideas, processes, organizations, layouts, and even buildings. And as you’ve already seen, the basic building blocks you use to create your drawings are the shapes provided on Visio stencils. Connectors are drawing elements that indicate why the shapes are there and what they are doing. Shapes and connectors together give the complete picture. Connected drawings are meaningful drawings.

The previous chapter introduced a few of the methods for connecting shapes. This chapter provides ...