Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Inside Out

Chapter 4. Adding Text to Shapes and Diagrams

Adding Text

Selecting and Editing Text

Creating Tables and Lists

Formatting Text

Changing the Position of a Shape’s Text

Finding and Correcting Text

Using Visio Shapes to Display Text

Adding Text to Headers and Footers

Creating Text Fields to Display Information

Microsoft Office Visio 2003 was designed with the idea that any shape can have text, and all you do to insert that text is click and type. Text appears attractively formatted exactly where you need it. In theory, you should never have to think much about text in Visio except to consider what you want to say. Visio takes care of the rest.

In practice, most people spend a lot of time formatting and positioning text in their diagrams, because most diagrams ...