Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Inside Out

Defining Shape Data

If you want to track information with your drawings, you probably also want to customize the shape data. Perhaps your company uses a specific nomenclature for fields that you want your drawing to reflect. Or maybe you want to remove some shape data to streamline data entry. You can add and remove shape data as well as edit their labels and the format used to display the values. Visio 2007 features two ways of accessing shape data:

• Through the Shape Data window, which lets you work with the properties of a single shape or master shape.

• By editing shape data, which is described later in this chapter. This lets you define multiple properties at once (that is, a shape data set), which can be applied to multiple shapes at once. ...