Bring your ideas to life with new capabilities in Visio for the web
At Visio, we are constantly working on new features to enhance the Visio for the web experience. In this blog, we provide a step-by-step guide on how to design a flowchart leveraging some of the latest capabilities in Visio for the web. Learn how to create and coauthor professional-looking flowcharts for effective decision making and process execution.
Right Angle Connectors are now going Diagonal?
Hey, I've been working on this Visio diagram for some time now, and I have nearly got every hidden setting working in my favor. Unfortunately, something happened to my connectors, they ALL ARE DIAGONAL?! These are Right Angle connectors, and they were all fine. I went to make some changes to a couple of Master Stencils, and page settings. Here, take a look at these screenshots of what happens now: First, this is what it looks like when I go to drag the connector. Second is immediately after I release the mouse button, it fails to render an imaginary diagonal line. Notice the little blue bubble. Third is when I move the horizontal line up, it indeed has created a diagonal connector. Fourth is the settings of the right side <1> shape; showing how the connection points are supposed to be acting, +1 or -1 along the X-dir. And indeed they WERE working merely hours ago, and for the last week. I changed settings inside of the Master Shape for these <> shapes: Miscellaneous: NoObjHandles = TRUE Group Properties: SelectMode = 0 These settings are to prevent future users from accidentally editing the shapes when they only need to select and use the Shape Data.
Microsoft 365 Subscriptions
In fourth quarter of 2024, I decided to upgrade my machine and tried out a web only version (freeware) of Microsoft 365. After some time, I found out that I was not getting the qualities I needed for documentation to be presentable as Microsoft Word and Excel were not usable for print formats. I decided to buy a Microsoft 365 Business subscription (bought through my domain provider) which allowed me to use my email address attached to me and my website domain. This allowed me to also download desktop copies of Word and Excel. However, I ran into problems with old accounts colliding with my new ones..., for example, Skype for Business, Microsoft Store, and Microsoft Live would constantly appear in my installation admins. If I attempted to install them, the installation would fail and get stuck i.e, I could not remove them. Microsoft message pop-ups would state, "You cannot install this on a 'work' account." I thought to myself, "Okay, I installed my Windows OS as a "Work Account on my new machine." This made sense, because I could go to my browser on my new machine and I could go to my old laptop that had absolutely no Microsoft 365 on it and access my Office from my browser profile. My old laptop is the only machine that accepts the Windows Live email address i.e., it acts as a Windows Live access service via the 'free' outlook account to which it is attached. However, now that all these items are separated by Work or Home classification, I keep getting messages that state, "We cannot renew your Microsoft 365 account." But my Work account should not be attached to Microsoft Live accounts...should it? After all, it uses Entra ID for access and the subscription is bought through my domain vendor. Why is Microsoft Support sending me these emails? My original setup accessed Microsoft Live accounts via the web through my old laptop using my free Outlook email and looked something like the graphic below:
Visio Plan - Strange Issues
Hello All, This is a bit convoluted so I'll try and keep this as succinct as possible. Ask away if you need more info. I have created a network rack elevation diagram in Visio I used Visio stencils from several different manufacturers I needed to edit some of the Visio shapes that I used. I did this by Right-clicking the shape Under Group, clicking on "Open stencil name" Clicking the shape and ungrouping it Making my changes as needed Ctrl-A to select every part of the shape Grouping everything back together Closing the shape I save my work frequently, including immediately before closing the drawing or the application To this point, everything works and looks as expected But then: If I close the file or close Visio, and reopen my drawing, Every shape I edited is messed up in one way or another If I save the file as a DWG or DXF and open it in CAD Entire shapes are missing, or Elements or parts of shapes are missing If I save the file as a PDF 8 out of 10 times it's perfect, but 2 out of 10 times it exhibits some of the issues described above This is work-related and a few of us are mystified as to what is going on here. My employer is an O365 shop and all of our software is licensed. I am running all of the latest O365 updates. I'm happy to provide additional info, screenshots, etc. so please just ask. Thanks in advance for any assistance. BG
