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How to pan in visio like in a PDF viewer with the "hand" tool?

In Visio 2016 we can pan the canvas by dragging middle mouse button: . But I want to pan the canvas by dragging like in a PDF viewer with . How to do that?
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Strip away individual shape colors/styles of Visio shapes and restore to theme default?

I have a Visio 2016 process flow document that someone else created. They individually set the colors (and other style attributes) for the shapes on the page. Is there any way to clear away all the individual colors/style-attributes from the objects…
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Visio 2016 Shape Protection cannot be removed

I am using a Visio 2016 Cross-Functional Flowchart template - Vertical layout. I added two swimlane columns to the two columns in the prebuilt template, then resized them so that they evenly fit within the 11 X 8.5 in size. However, when I try to…
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Can't install Visio 2016, "the following products can not be installed at the same time"

I'm trying to install visio 2016 (licence for 5 installs, but only 3 have been used so far) on a office PC but when I do I get this error message: I thought I this was because office 2010 was installed on the PC, but when I uninstalled that I still…
PaddyD
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Multiple parallel connectors between shapes in Visio

I have two rectangles in Visio 2016. I would like to add multiple parallel connectors between them: ----------- | | <-- rectangle 1 ----------- | | <------- connectors ----------- | | <-- rectangle 2 ----------- Adding one…
red.october
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Word (2016 or 365) can't edit embedded Visio objects, with Visio 2016 installed

I just started working for a new employer that makes heavy use of Visio. I need to manage some existing documents, and one change that's been requested of me is that I make some minor changes to an embedded Visio object on the document. When I…
RLH
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Swimlanes background colour change

When I export my visio file to a webpage the background of the swimlanes changes from white to blue. I recently added more swimlanes and after exporting it as a webpage the new lanes are a lighter shade of blue. Is there a setting that I can change…
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Changing a line's length in Visio without affecting its angle

Is there a way to lock the angles of lines?I would like to be able to set a line’s angle and then resize it by grabbing one end and dragging it around, without concern of changing the line’s angle. The "Rotation" box here appears to not be…
Blair Fonville
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Visio 2016: Unable to Zoom when Editing Embedded Files (Excel spreadsheets)

I am using Visio 2016 and having a constant, irritating issue. I need to edit embedded Excel spreadsheets everyday. Without fail, whenever I double-click the spreadsheet object in order to enter Edit mode for the spreadsheet, Visio zooms me OUT. The…
Rose
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Importing Entity Relationships from Excel into Visio

Looking for help/any advice importing a very large many-to-many entity relationship diagram from data in Excel into a relationship diagram in Visio. My data is identifying upstream & downstream dependency relationships of the entities and I'm…
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In Visio Professional 2016 my hyperlinks will only launch our Intranet home page, not the specific documents I'm linking to

I've used various ways to insert the document URL into the Visio shape: I've pasted the URL into the Address field I've tried with and without 'Use relative path for hyperlink' I've tried clicking 'Browse' instead of pasting the URL; the document…
Sharon Mc
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Microsoft Visio Page settings

I used to use Visio years ago (2003 version), recently installed it again(2016 version) to make some technical drawings. But it has been frustrating to say the least. What i wish is that the "page" starts @ 0,0 meaning that the left top most pixel…
A.bakker
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Inserted Images are Blurry (not original resolution) in Visio 2016

In Microsoft Visio (2016) whenever I insert an image of higher quality it turns up super blurry. I have tried to disable the compression already but whenever I attempt to change the setting, not only does it not change the image, it re ticks the…
Nathan Baxter
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Why can't I rename shapes in Visio?

Am I doing something wrong? I can't seem to rename a shape more than once, and I cannot reference any shapes by their "given" names, only by their shape ID. Here's what I'm doing in Visio 2016 Standard: Create a new shape, which I'll call…
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Can I add a webpage (browser) to a visio diagram?

Can I add a webpage(browser) to a Visio diagram? Edit -- Additional Info: I do not wish to add a hyperlink. I want to view the webpage in the diagram. I know that there are webparts that can do this with…
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