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Visualize Complex Processes with Microsoft Visio

You're reading from   Visualize Complex Processes with Microsoft Visio A guide to visually creating, communicating, and collaborating business processes efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837631926
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Choosing the Correct Business Process Diagram Type 2. Chapter 2: Choosing the Best Visio Edition for Our Needs FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Learning to Manually Create Process Flow Diagrams 4. Chapter 4: Using Visio for Desktop with BPMN 5. Chapter 5: Utilizing Data Sources to Create and Enrich Business Process Diagrams 6. Chapter 6: Learn How to Diagram Efficiently 7. Chapter 7: Preparing Diagrams for Presentation and Collaboration 8. Chapter 8: Securing and Providing Access to Diagrams 9. Chapter 9: Integrating Visio with Other Microsoft Apps 10. Chapter 10: Customizing Master Shapes and Templates 11. Chapter 11: Improving the Provided Flowchart Shapes 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Inheriting the labels of built-in containers

These container shapes displayed in the gallery are just more master shapes from a built-in stencil. We can enhance them by adding similar properties to the Swimlane shapes. The following diagram has had the names of each one added:

Figure 11.9 – The built-in container shapes

Figure 11.9 – The built-in container shapes

We can enhance as many of these as we want to, but first, we must copy the master from the built-in stencil to Document Stencil. To do this, we just need to add each one to a page in our document and then delete the copy on the page. This will leave the master in Document Stencil, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 11.10 – Creating a copy of a built-in container master shape

Figure 11.10 – Creating a copy of a built-in container master shape

Then we can edit this local copy of the master shape and add the User.visNavOrder and User.visHeadingText rows, as we did in the previous section for the Separator shape. Again, check which of the sub-shapes contain...

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