Chapter 3. Organizing and Annotating Diagrams

In this chapter, you learn about some of Visio 2010’s new structured drawing features—Containers, Lists, and Callouts—that take organization and annotation beyond just text and lines on the page. This chapter also describes groups, layers, and markup and review features, which offer even more possibilities.

Incorporating hierarchies, groupings, and classifications into your diagrams makes them easier to create, understand, and update. Because many documents are continually evolving and in need of updating, you need tools to help you annotate and comment on drawings as they change with your business.

Containers and Lists

There are many cases in which you need to visually associate shapes that are logically ...

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