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When creating an organisation chart you may want to add extra information or data behind the shapes. In Visio you can use the shape data task pane to add thi. You can select the shape then use drop-down items in the Shape Data window, or you can directly right-click on the shape and toggle the switches: Bit Mask: One Field, Eight Digits. Visio Guy (.cough.) then got into the act, with the spirit of an impatient, keyboard-shortcut-using, command-line-missing, old school hack. I haven’t been able to transform/distort shapes in Visio 2010, which I clearly remembered was possible in older versions of Visio. And when you google how to do it; you get images like this (kindly lent from EtherealMind.com), telling you to mouse over the shape and wait for the extra handles to pop up.
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- Select the shape you want to switch to. You can only replace 2D shapes with other 2D shapes (like a Decision shape for a Process shape) and 1D shapes with other 1D shapes (replacing one type of connector with another). You can't replace a connector with a rectangle, as an example. This feature is available in Visio 2013 and newer versions.
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Themes and Styles are useful to give the diagram a design makeover and make it stand out. Visio provides a standard set of themes and styles, which are customizable.
Themes
Themes apply to the entire diagram. Themes comprise of a set of colors and effects that generally blend well with each other. They are a great way to quickly give the diagram a polished look. Themes also affect other parts of the document such as titles, headings, text, etc.
To apply a theme, go to the Design tab and select a theme from the Themes section. The dropdown arrow provides more choices categorized by theme type. When you click a theme, all the aspects of the diagram and other parts of the document reflect the theme settings.
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A theme can have many variants, which can be selected from the Variants section of the Design tab.
Styles
Styles are different from themes such that, they are applicable to a selected shape or a group of shapes. Styles help in customizing the aspects of a particular style.
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To change a style of a shape, select the shape and from the Home tab, then select a style from the Shape Styles section. Style can be applied to both shape elements in the diagram as well as to individual text boxes. You can select multiple shapes to apply the style to all of them together.
.When you change a theme after applying a style to a shape, the shape will take up the characteristics of the theme but will still remain distinct from other shapes. Of course, you can continue to customize the style even after applying a theme.