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Published inMay 2016
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ISBN-139781785882661
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David J Parker's background has been in data visualization ever since he struggled to produce lists of hospital equipment from Computer Aided Design models of buildings as a budding architect in the '80s. He moved into building and infrastructure asset management in the late '80s using a Unix system and gradually migrated to Windows-based systems throughout the '90s. He became a European Business partner of Visio Corporation in 1996 and presented the database-linked Visio solutions that he was providing merchant banks in London and New York with at several international conferences. David started bVisual Ltd. in 1998, which provides Visio-based solutions to various industries, and became a Silver-level Microsoft partner. He has been a Microsoft MVP (Visio) for the last 12 years and has helped Microsoft Corp, UK and Western Europe, by providing Visio solutions, training, website content, and presentations. David has had several books on Visio published and has been presenting Visio/SharePoint integration courses for many years for Microsoft Western Europe, from Oslo in the North down to Lisbon in the South. He has presented at SQL and SharePoint Saturday conferences and writes a regular blog for people interested in Microsoft Visio.
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All Visio documents can contain VBA code, but they must be saved with one of the macro-enabled extensions. Often, the best location for custom VBA code is in a stencil, saved with a VSSM extension. This is because it can be easily opened for read-only purposes by multiple documents and users.

This book has companion VBA code in a Visio stencil called Mastering Data.vssm. The project name, Mastering_Data, and other values can be set in the Project Properties dialog opened from the Tools menu.

VBA projects can also be locked with a password on the Protection tab of the Project Properties dialog, as shown in the next screenshot:

Locking code prevents idle tampering, but there are VBA password hacks available online.

The VBA project in a Visio document can also be signed with a digital signature, as shown in the following screenshot of the dialog opened by Tools | Digital Signature:

If a VBA project has a digital certificate applied to it, then it will automatically be removed...

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Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016
Published in: May 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785882661

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David Parker

David J Parker's background has been in data visualization ever since he struggled to produce lists of hospital equipment from Computer Aided Design models of buildings as a budding architect in the '80s. He moved into building and infrastructure asset management in the late '80s using a Unix system and gradually migrated to Windows-based systems throughout the '90s. He became a European Business partner of Visio Corporation in 1996 and presented the database-linked Visio solutions that he was providing merchant banks in London and New York with at several international conferences. David started bVisual Ltd. in 1998, which provides Visio-based solutions to various industries, and became a Silver-level Microsoft partner. He has been a Microsoft MVP (Visio) for the last 12 years and has helped Microsoft Corp, UK and Western Europe, by providing Visio solutions, training, website content, and presentations. David has had several books on Visio published and has been presenting Visio/SharePoint integration courses for many years for Microsoft Western Europe, from Oslo in the North down to Lisbon in the South. He has presented at SQL and SharePoint Saturday conferences and writes a regular blog for people interested in Microsoft Visio.
Read more about David Parker