Professional Development with Visio® 2000

Intershape and Innershape References

We have already seen how any ShapeSheet cell can reference any other cell in the same ShapeSheet. We do this by making a direct reference to that cell's name. For example, if the value to be used for the width of a given SmartShape symbol is to be taken from a user-defined cell and the user-defined cell is named MyWidth, the formula in the ShapeSheet's Width would be =GUARD(MyWidth). We have also seen that any Visio SmartShape symbol can reference another by using intershape references. If the height of a symbol called Sheet.2 must always be equal to the height of a symbol called Sheet.1, the height cell in the ShapeSheet for Sheet.2 would contain the formula =GUARD(Sheet.1!Height). We see that the exclamation ...