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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

Selecting a Master shape to drop


A Master object must be obtained before it can be dropped onto a page using code. Simply knowing the name of a desired Master is not enough because the Master may not exist in the Document Stencil yet. Also, there may be more than one Master with the same name on any opened stencil, so the stencil name may also be required. In fact, the active Document may have a number of docked stencils, so they should be checked first. Then, the Visio Application may have a number of different stencil documents open. Lastly, the stencil may not even be open in Visio, so the stencil may need to be opened, but that is left for the accompanying code for this book.

The caption that appears on the header bar of a stencil is either the mapped long name or title of the stencil, if there is one, otherwise it displays the name without the file extension. All the built-in stencils have terse filenames that are mapped to longer names that are displayed in the UI. These mappings are...

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