Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Step by Step

Key Points

• You can connect network equipment shapes to backbone shapes, such as Ethernet or Ring network shapes, in network diagrams by dragging control handles from the backbone shape to the middle of the network equipment shape.

• You can store network equipment information with shapes by using custom properties. To view a shape's custom property data, select the shape, and then on the View menu, click Custom Properties Window. You can also right-click a shape, and then click Properties on the shortcut menu.

• You can define a new custom property for all the instances of a shape in your diagram. Open the Document Stencil, and then on that stencil, double-click the shape to which you want to add the custom property. Select the shape in the drawing ...