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Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016

Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016

By : John Marshall
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Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016

Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016

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By: John Marshall

Overview of this book

Microsoft Visio Professional is a data visualization application that is used by many different market sectors and many different departments to represent information visually, from network infrastructure to organization charts, from process diagrams to office layouts. Starting off with a brief introduction to Visio Professional 2016 and then moving on to data storage, linking data to shapes, and working with SQL Server to create a solid foundation. Then we’ll cover topics such as refreshing data, working with geographical data, working with various graphics, and diagrams, and more. Finally, you’ll find out how to deploy custom stencils, templates, and code.
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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:

Getting to grips with the ShapeSheet

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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