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Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016

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Product type Book
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785882661
Pages 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
John Marshall John Marshall
David Parker David Parker
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Data within Visio Essentials 2. Understanding How Data Is Stored within Visio 3. Linking Data to Shapes 4. Using the Built-In Data Graphics 5. Using the Pivot Diagram Add-On 6. Creating Custom Master Shapes 7. Creating Custom Data Graphics 8. Validating and Extracting Information 9. Automating Structured Diagrams 10. Sharing Data Diagrams 11. Choosing a Deployment Methodology Index

Getting to grips with the ShapeSheet


Every document, page, and shape has a ShapeSheet that contains a number of sections, rows, and cells. Cells contain formulas that produce a resultant value.

The document ShapeSheet is known as the DocumentSheet in the object model, but it can be referenced as TheDoc in a cell formula. Similarly, the page ShapeSheet is known as PageSheet in the object model, but it is referred to as ThePage in cell formulas.

There are a lot of mandatory sections in the ShapeSheet, and some of them do not even have their own enumerator in visSectionIndices. Instead, they come under visSectionIndices.visSectionObject. In fact, there are 38 shown on the View Sections dialog, but with only 24 section constants:

It is more efficient to reference a cell by its SRC (Section, Row, Cell) values than by its name. However, there are times when using the name is unavoidable.

If the ShapeSheet is open in the UI, then you can easily find the name of a cell by clicking in the cell, placing...

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