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Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016

By : John Marshall, David Parker
Book Image

Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016

By: John Marshall, David Parker

Overview of this book

Microsoft Visio Professional is a data visualization application that is used by many different market sectors and many different departments to represent information visually, from network infrastructure to organization charts, from process diagrams to office layouts. Starting off with a brief introduction to Visio Professional 2016 and then moving on to data storage, linking data to shapes, and working with SQL Server to create a solid foundation. Then we’ll cover topics such as refreshing data, working with geographical data, working with various graphics, and diagrams, and more. Finally, you’ll find out how to deploy custom stencils, templates, and code.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Applying shapes to enhance legibility


There are times when it is useful to add a graphic to Pivot Node shapes, so as to better represent their meaning. The PIVOT DIAGRAM | Format | Apply Shape button opens the Apply Shape dialog. This dialog, as shown next, presents the open stencils (apart from the PivotDiagram Shapes one) to be selected with the Stencil drop-down list. The masters on the selected stencil are displayed:

When a master is selected and the OK button is pressed, the shape is inserted into the selected Pivot Node shapes.