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How can I insert Visio drawings into a grid?
I currently have approx. 150 small visio diagrams that I will print on a
1-page wall chart using a plotter. The chart needs to be set up in a grid format (similar to Excel) with one visio digram in each cell of the grid. The chart will have a legend that shows the name of each visio diagram with its grid coordinates . (For example, Diagram A is at location A1, Diagram B is at A2, etc.) To make things interesting, the number of visio diagrams will grow and as a result, the diagrams on the chart may need to be rearranged on the grid. I would like to figure out a way to set this up so that placing a visio diagram in a different grid cell would automatically update the legend with the new, correct cell coordinates for that diagram. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? I have tried pasting the visio diagrams into Excel and into the visio Charting Shapes grids, but of course you can't actually insert the diagrams into a cell using these. If you think VBA code is the way I will have to go, I would appreciate specific suggestions as to what I need to code since I am a novice with VBA. I am using Visio 2007 on Windows XP but the rest of my MS Office apps are currently 2003. My company will be upgrading to Office 2007 soon, so my solution will have to be able to accommodate that change. Thank you in advance for any ideas or suggestions you may have. |
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How can I insert Visio drawings into a grid?
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:26:00 -0700, Kam
wrote: I currently have approx. 150 small visio diagrams that I will print on a 1-page wall chart using a plotter. The chart needs to be set up in a grid format (similar to Excel) with one visio digram in each cell of the grid. The chart will have a legend that shows the name of each visio diagram with its grid coordinates . (For example, Diagram A is at location A1, Diagram B is at A2, etc.) To make things interesting, the number of visio diagrams will grow and as a result, the diagrams on the chart may need to be rearranged on the grid. I would like to figure out a way to set this up so that placing a visio diagram in a different grid cell would automatically update the legend with the new, correct cell coordinates for that diagram. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? I have tried pasting the visio diagrams into Excel and into the visio Charting Shapes grids, but of course you can't actually insert the diagrams into a cell using these. If you think VBA code is the way I will have to go, I would appreciate specific suggestions as to what I need to code since I am a novice with VBA. I am using Visio 2007 on Windows XP but the rest of my MS Office apps are currently 2003. My company will be upgrading to Office 2007 soon, so my solution will have to be able to accommodate that change. Thank you in advance for any ideas or suggestions you may have. Save all the diagrams as images, gif or png might be the best format. Mow have a look at some of the software used for creating web based photo albums, I used one recently, http://www.ornj.net/webalbum/ You can set the number of image columns, image size, captions and you can just edit the album file manually with a simple text editor. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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How can I insert Visio drawings into a grid?
a key question, to be answered, is : what version of v2007? (standard or
professional) al "Kam" wrote in message news I currently have approx. 150 small visio diagrams that I will print on a 1-page wall chart using a plotter. The chart needs to be set up in a grid format (similar to Excel) with one visio digram in each cell of the grid. The chart will have a legend that shows the name of each visio diagram with its grid coordinates . (For example, Diagram A is at location A1, Diagram B is at A2, etc.) To make things interesting, the number of visio diagrams will grow and as a result, the diagrams on the chart may need to be rearranged on the grid. I would like to figure out a way to set this up so that placing a visio diagram in a different grid cell would automatically update the legend with the new, correct cell coordinates for that diagram. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? I have tried pasting the visio diagrams into Excel and into the visio Charting Shapes grids, but of course you can't actually insert the diagrams into a cell using these. If you think VBA code is the way I will have to go, I would appreciate specific suggestions as to what I need to code since I am a novice with VBA. I am using Visio 2007 on Windows XP but the rest of my MS Office apps are currently 2003. My company will be upgrading to Office 2007 soon, so my solution will have to be able to accommodate that change. Thank you in advance for any ideas or suggestions you may have. |
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How can I insert Visio drawings into a grid?
Thank you very much, Paul. I'll give that a try right now.
"Paul Herber" wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:26:00 -0700, Kam wrote: I currently have approx. 150 small visio diagrams that I will print on a 1-page wall chart using a plotter. The chart needs to be set up in a grid format (similar to Excel) with one visio digram in each cell of the grid. The chart will have a legend that shows the name of each visio diagram with its grid coordinates . (For example, Diagram A is at location A1, Diagram B is at A2, etc.) To make things interesting, the number of visio diagrams will grow and as a result, the diagrams on the chart may need to be rearranged on the grid. I would like to figure out a way to set this up so that placing a visio diagram in a different grid cell would automatically update the legend with the new, correct cell coordinates for that diagram. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? I have tried pasting the visio diagrams into Excel and into the visio Charting Shapes grids, but of course you can't actually insert the diagrams into a cell using these. If you think VBA code is the way I will have to go, I would appreciate specific suggestions as to what I need to code since I am a novice with VBA. I am using Visio 2007 on Windows XP but the rest of my MS Office apps are currently 2003. My company will be upgrading to Office 2007 soon, so my solution will have to be able to accommodate that change. Thank you in advance for any ideas or suggestions you may have. Save all the diagrams as images, gif or png might be the best format. Mow have a look at some of the software used for creating web based photo albums, I used one recently, http://www.ornj.net/webalbum/ You can set the number of image columns, image size, captions and you can just edit the album file manually with a simple text editor. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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How can I insert Visio drawings into a grid?
I'm using V2007 Professional.
I quickly tried Paul's web album suggestion and I don't think it's going to meet my needs. I would have to print the thumbnail index as my chart and it doesn't give me enough flexibility to place the visio diagrams where I want them in the index. Also, it only accepts .jpg format and the readability of the text on my diagrams really degraded when I saved them as jpgs. I also looked into using Visio's "zones" shapes, but it appears that they function as just a background, which is not what I'm looking for. I would really appreciate any other suggestions you might have. "AlEdlund" wrote: a key question, to be answered, is : what version of v2007? (standard or professional) al "Kam" wrote in message news I currently have approx. 150 small visio diagrams that I will print on a 1-page wall chart using a plotter. The chart needs to be set up in a grid format (similar to Excel) with one visio digram in each cell of the grid. The chart will have a legend that shows the name of each visio diagram with its grid coordinates . (For example, Diagram A is at location A1, Diagram B is at A2, etc.) To make things interesting, the number of visio diagrams will grow and as a result, the diagrams on the chart may need to be rearranged on the grid. I would like to figure out a way to set this up so that placing a visio diagram in a different grid cell would automatically update the legend with the new, correct cell coordinates for that diagram. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? I have tried pasting the visio diagrams into Excel and into the visio Charting Shapes grids, but of course you can't actually insert the diagrams into a cell using these. If you think VBA code is the way I will have to go, I would appreciate specific suggestions as to what I need to code since I am a novice with VBA. I am using Visio 2007 on Windows XP but the rest of my MS Office apps are currently 2003. My company will be upgrading to Office 2007 soon, so my solution will have to be able to accommodate that change. Thank you in advance for any ideas or suggestions you may have. |
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How can I insert Visio drawings into a grid?
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:03:02 -0700, Kam
wrote: I'm using V2007 Professional. I quickly tried Paul's web album suggestion and I don't think it's going to meet my needs. I would have to print the thumbnail index as my chart and it doesn't give me enough flexibility to place the visio diagrams where I want them in the index. Also, it only accepts .jpg format and the readability of the text on my diagrams really degraded when I saved them as jpgs. That one was only an example, there are many more, and that take PNGs http://www.web-album-maker.com/screenshot.html I searched for "png photo album generator" -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electrical for Visio http://www.electrical.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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How can I insert Visio drawings into a grid?
Thanks again, Paul. I'll try this one. I searched for other ones myself,
but didn't find any that weren't blocked by my company's security software. Obviously I didn't find this one. I'll let you know how it goes. "Paul Herber" wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:03:02 -0700, Kam wrote: I'm using V2007 Professional. I quickly tried Paul's web album suggestion and I don't think it's going to meet my needs. I would have to print the thumbnail index as my chart and it doesn't give me enough flexibility to place the visio diagrams where I want them in the index. Also, it only accepts .jpg format and the readability of the text on my diagrams really degraded when I saved them as jpgs. That one was only an example, there are many more, and that take PNGs http://www.web-album-maker.com/screenshot.html I searched for "png photo album generator" -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electrical for Visio http://www.electrical.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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How can I insert Visio drawings into a grid?
you might try naming each page A1,A2,A3 and fold the page name into the
footer for that page. user.cell = pagename() insert field(user.cell) into the footer. Could also add date and maybe revision incase the this 'grid' entry updates "Kam" wrote: I currently have approx. 150 small visio diagrams that I will print on a 1-page wall chart using a plotter. The chart needs to be set up in a grid format (similar to Excel) with one visio digram in each cell of the grid. The chart will have a legend that shows the name of each visio diagram with its grid coordinates . (For example, Diagram A is at location A1, Diagram B is at A2, etc.) To make things interesting, the number of visio diagrams will grow and as a result, the diagrams on the chart may need to be rearranged on the grid. I would like to figure out a way to set this up so that placing a visio diagram in a different grid cell would automatically update the legend with the new, correct cell coordinates for that diagram. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? I have tried pasting the visio diagrams into Excel and into the visio Charting Shapes grids, but of course you can't actually insert the diagrams into a cell using these. If you think VBA code is the way I will have to go, I would appreciate specific suggestions as to what I need to code since I am a novice with VBA. I am using Visio 2007 on Windows XP but the rest of my MS Office apps are currently 2003. My company will be upgrading to Office 2007 soon, so my solution will have to be able to accommodate that change. Thank you in advance for any ideas or suggestions you may have. |
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How can I insert Visio drawings into a grid?
Thank you for the great idea. I'll give it a try.
"vojo" wrote: you might try naming each page A1,A2,A3 and fold the page name into the footer for that page. user.cell = pagename() insert field(user.cell) into the footer. Could also add date and maybe revision incase the this 'grid' entry updates "Kam" wrote: I currently have approx. 150 small visio diagrams that I will print on a 1-page wall chart using a plotter. The chart needs to be set up in a grid format (similar to Excel) with one visio digram in each cell of the grid. The chart will have a legend that shows the name of each visio diagram with its grid coordinates . (For example, Diagram A is at location A1, Diagram B is at A2, etc.) To make things interesting, the number of visio diagrams will grow and as a result, the diagrams on the chart may need to be rearranged on the grid. I would like to figure out a way to set this up so that placing a visio diagram in a different grid cell would automatically update the legend with the new, correct cell coordinates for that diagram. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? I have tried pasting the visio diagrams into Excel and into the visio Charting Shapes grids, but of course you can't actually insert the diagrams into a cell using these. If you think VBA code is the way I will have to go, I would appreciate specific suggestions as to what I need to code since I am a novice with VBA. I am using Visio 2007 on Windows XP but the rest of my MS Office apps are currently 2003. My company will be upgrading to Office 2007 soon, so my solution will have to be able to accommodate that change. Thank you in advance for any ideas or suggestions you may have. |
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