IT:AD:Visio:HowTo
Summary
Visio is an old program (about 20 years old now), and because it was designed with old metaphors, etc. feels 'different' than more modern applications.
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Notes
The following are instructions on accomplishing common actions with an unintuitive, out-of-date interface.
Shapes
Rounded Corners
Not all shapes allow you to modify the Rectangle's rounded corners. Consider sticking with a plain Rectangle (not Square), which does allow for this.
Shape Fill Gradients
Select the object Select Format/Fill Apply a background color Select a Fill Pattern that is a gradient (tip: not intuitive because only the top visible patterns are hatches…) Then the Fill Color because enabled. Set that. Done.
Connectors
Moving Text on a Connector
Change the Selector from the default Selector to a Text Block.
Then you can move the Block of the Text.
Text in General
Text Formatting
Organisation
Layers
If there is one feature where Visio has the advantage over IT:AD:Draw.IO is the ability to define layers.
Move Shapes (and their Connectors) to new Layers:
Select Shape/Format/Layer...
To Turn off/on/color a layer to see how things are shaping up:
Menu/View/Layer Properties...