Chapter 11. Developing Custom Visio Solutions
By now you can fully appreciate Visio’s breadth and depth. With stencils and templates you can quickly create innumerable types of diagrams. Intelligent-behaving SmartShapes let you draw more efficiently. Data-linking makes your creations more valuable. And add-on tools save you time and offer advanced functionality.
You’ve probably started to formulate ideas for your own custom diagram types. Maybe your company needs a special flavor of an existing template, or you are salivating at the idea of creating your own SmartShapes that will save you time.
You can get pretty far by creating your own libraries of existing shapes, or importing clip art and then building a template. But it gets really interesting ...
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