Fading objects

[Jamie]

How do I fade objects in Visio 2000?

Thanks,

Jamie

 

[Al Edlund]

could you help me understand by what you mean "fade an object"?
tks,
al

 

[Jamie]

Al,

I have a figure that I've created in Visio. For the next stage of the figure, I want some of the objects in the initial figure to graudally disapper, but still be visible. I searched fade, diminish, washout and other keywords that I thought described this process in the Visio Help, but nothing came up.

Thanks,

Jamie

----- Al Edlund wrote: -----

could you help me understand by what you mean "fade an object"?
tks,
al

 

[Al Edlund]

AFAIK that functionality isn't in Visio. Typically we either change the
color through a couple of different mechanisms (manually, via a formula in a
shapesheet, via program, or by moving it to a different layer), but outside
of writing your own code there is an incremental facility available.
Al

Al,

I have a figure that I've created in Visio. For the next stage of the

figure, I want some of the objects in the initial figure to graudally
disapper, but still be visible. I searched fade, diminish, washout and
other keywords that I thought described this process in the Visio Help, but
nothing came up.

 

[Randall Arnold]

Sounds like a nice future feature, though. A transparency property for all
shapes...

Randall Arnold

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

Transparency was introduced in Visio 2002. I tried to use it to do Ven
diagrams, but the resulting colours were muddy.

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[John Marshall, MVP]

If you select Line, Text or Fill from the Format menu, you will see a slide
for transparency.

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[Dawn Wright [MSFT]]

That feature is in Visio 2002 and 2003, but it's a bit hidden.

1) Select the shapes that you want to make transparent
2) Choose View > Toolbars > Format Shape
3) In the toolbar that appears, choose the button with the overlapping
yellow circle and blue square.
4) Choose the transparency setting that you want

 

[Randall Arnold]

Yeah, I remembered after I posted that (d'oh!). I just never used it so it
didn't stick. Stoopid me...

; )

Randall Arnold