Allow the printed page to be moved, repositioned without moving the tire document.

Also allow taking a "snapshot" of an area and only printing that section.

The way I envision this working is for Visio to overlay the Print Grid (if multi-paged) or the sheet rectangle (if single paged) over the entire document. and move it around, allowing the user to change how the printed document will appear. The Grid Rectangles will be set by the Page Printer settings. Ideally, the Printer settings dialog Box will appear, allowing users to change paper size, orientation, etc., while organizing the printouts.

I do this today by moving the entire document (unlock all, view all, etc.) then Ctrl-A and using the Arrow Keys or Shift-Drag. This often results in all my careful measurements going from Integers to x.000002, y.000001, etc.

The Snapshot feature would provide an Overlay Rectangle, based upon Paper settings (i.e. 8.5x11, landscape), that can be placed anywhere on a document and can then be printed. Note that the Rectangle should be able to be resized, maintaining the printed page aspect dimensions, and then Visio will automatically adjust the drawing to fit the printed page.

Custom paper sizes should be allowed, so a snapshot could then be inserted into a Power Point presentation, Word document, Web page, etc.

In all cases, the Print Rectangles should show the printable area. If a user is using 8.5x 11 paper in portrait mode, with a 1 inch borders all around, and a half-inch title bar at the bottom, then the Print area should be 6x9 .

Last, it would be nice if these settings could be saved, as multiple Print options.

“Using the Visio ms-visio:nft function does not set the Save As location.

For example, when using...

ms-visio:nft|u|https://[path]/Test.vstx|s|https://[path]

This should create a new Visio drawing based on the template given, and set the default save location to that specified with the 's' command.

What happens though is the Visio file is created, but the default save location is NOT set which is a major problem for our integration.

This doesn't work for any Visio template. We can reproduce on any version of Visio and with local and http file locations.

There is no error reported.

Note: the same function DOES work for MS Word: ms-word:nft|u|https://[path]/Test.dotx|s|https://[path]”

ISSUE: When a user copies and pastes a range of cells from Excel into Visio, the current options are:
(1) paste the text contents (with or without text formatting) into a single, unformatted text box, which requires additional work by the user to format the text into a series of Visio shapes resembling a table;
(2) paste special as a bitmap, which significantly increases the Visio file size AND does not allow the user to edit the contents afterwards;
(3) paste special as an Excel worksheet object, which inhibits the user's ability to share the Visio drawing with others (since an extra file must be shared); or
(4) create a custom VBA macro, which is limited to users who have VBA knowledge & skill OR may be prohibited by organizations that do not permit users to run macros.

SOLUTION: Add an option in the "Paste Special" dialog box that transfers a static copy of the selected Excel range into a Visio "table." The "table" would be comprised of multiple rectangle shapes, one for each cell in the selected range. This new feature would paste each cell value into the corresponding shape, format shapes and text to resemble the original range, and take into account any merged cells and text wrapping.

This feature would be immensely helpful for individuals & organizations that display information tables alongside their diagrams!

I am requesting the ability to display a PKI digital signature on the drawing (i.e a signature line), so that when I print the drawing, or send the drawing for a second concurrence, the digital signature is displayed. We use Visio to create packages which have multiple drawings, each which require two signatures. We could convert these drawings to PDF to digitally sign, but that requires us to save the file each time. this process takes too long, so we print and sign the documents. We would like to go paperless, but cannot if this process is required. The stencil feature in Visio is why we use it. We have extensively researched off the product items. We would love and add in that can be purchased, or the ability to digitally sign the document similar to the method used in Word.

Often after designing a process flow, I have to "walk through" what has been documented, to ensure there are no "dead ends", or lines not correctly joined, not described after a decision, or just to make sure the process actually makes sense; and I currently do this by zooming in, and manually tracing through the process (or printing it out and studying the process). A really useful feature would be a way to "simulate" the process, defining where it starts, then following it all the way through, one decision branch at a time (once that branch has been completed, going back to where the decision took place and following the next branch).