Creating Reports
If shapes have custom property fields in which you have entered data, you can generate a report that includes selected properties and values. Visio includes a number of predefined reports that you can use for specific types of information, such as asset reports, or you can create your own report and define its contents. What a report looks like depends on what you put in it and how you want to save it. Visio can save a report as an external file in XML format (with the file extension .VRD) or as a table shape on the drawing page that’s linked to the information.
Note
In earlier versions of Visio, you could use the Property Reporting Wizard to create inventory and asset reports. This wizard is no longer included in Visio. It has ...
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