Visio 2000 vs 2003

[sdllium]

A co-worker taught me a trick this afternoon that allowed us to work around
this in Visio 2000. Of course I'm working in 2003, and spent all afternoon
trying to make the same thing work and it doesn't!

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

Ok, I'll ask.

and the trick is?

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[Al Edlund]

save the v2003 file as v2002 ;-)
al

Ok, I'll ask.

and the trick is?

John... Visio MVP

Need stencils or ideas? http://visio.mvps.org/3rdparty.htm
Need VBA examples? http://visio.mvps.org/VBA.htm
Visio Wishlist http://visio.mvps.org/wish_list.htm

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

Possibly, but he did say it worked in 2000, but not in 2003.
I feel like the bank robber in Dirty Harry. "Eyes got two nose".

John... Visio MVP

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[sdllium]

Sorry for the newbie mistake, I was trying to reply to another thread about a
request to have a Global Layer feature. I just went back and found the post,
it was on 7/18/2005.

My co-worker was previously able to turn off the printing or visibility of a
layer across pages within the same document in Visio 2000. The only way I
can see to turn off a layer in Visio 2003 is on a page by page basis.

Do people use code/macros to get around this?

I use Visio to sketch out User Interfaces. These documents are often 30-50
pages. I want to move things like "developer notes" and "estimates" for each
screen to a seperate layer, so I can have all this information available,
but then I want to turn off the Print or Visible property so my clients do
not have to look at all of that detail, which can be overwhelming.

Sandra