What's New in Microsoft Office Visio 2003 for ShapeSheet Developers [Visio 2003 SDK Documentation]
Microsoft Office Visio 2003 provides a powerful single platform for your custom drawing solutions. New ShapeSheet sections, rows, and cells, along with Automation objects, properties, methods, and events, give you more options for defining the behavior of the elements in your solutions.
New features for ShapeSheet developers in Visio 2003
- Formula Tracing window To assist in the task of identifying interdependencies between ShapeSheet cells, you can use this window to trace both dependent and precedent cells of a given cell.
- Style Explorer window This window provides shape developers with a quick way to determine which shape cells inherit from a given style, or the style from which a given cell inherits its value.
- Smart tags You can use smart tags to make shape actions and settings more discoverable, to alert users to incomplete actions, or to let users start processes external to the drawing.
- Enhanced ShapeSheet spreadsheet See below for lists of new sections, rows, and cells.
- New functions See below for a list of new functions you can use in your formulas.
- Universal names displayed The ShapeSheet now displays only universal names in cell formulas and values. (In prior versions, universal names were not visible in the user interface.)
For a list of new features in Visio 2003 that are of interest to Automation developers, see What's new in Microsoft Office Visio 2003 for Automation developers.
The following topics provide lists of ShapeSheet elements that are new in Visio 2003.
New cells (by section)
New cells (alphabetical list)
| New cell | Section |
|---|---|
| AddMarkup | Document Properties |
| AsianFont | Character |
| BeginGroup | Actions |
| BulletFont | Paragraph |
| BulletSize | Paragraph |
| ButtonFace | Actions |
| ButtonFace | Smart Tags |
| Calendar | Custom Properties |
| Calendar | Miscellaneous |
| Calendar | Text Fields |
| CenterX | Print Properties |
| CenterY | Print Properties |
| Color | Reviewer |
| Comment | Annotation |
| ComplexScriptFont | Character |
| ComplexScriptSize | Character |
| Date | Annotation |
| Description | Smart Tags |
| Disabled | Smart Tags |
| DisplayMode | Smart Tags |
| DocLangID | Document Properties |
| DoubleStrikethrough | Character |
| DropOnPageScale | Miscellaneous |
| Flags | Paragraph |
| Initials | Reviewer |
| Invisible | Actions |
| Invisible | Hyperlinks |
| LangID | Annotation |
| LangID | Character |
| LangID | Custom Properties |
| LangID | Miscellaneous |
| LocalizeFont | Character |
| LocalizeMerge | Miscellaneous |
| LocBulletFont | Paragraph |
| LockCustProp | Protection |
| MarkerIndex | Annotation |
| Name | Reviewer |
| ObjectKind | Text Fields |
| OnPage | Print Properties |
| PageBottomMargin | Print Properties |
| PageLeftMargin cell | Print Properties |
| PageRightMargin | Print Properties |
| PageShapeSplit | Page Layout |
| PagesX | Print Properties |
| PagesY | Print Properties |
| PageTopMargin | Print Properties |
| PaperKind | Print Properties |
| PaperSource | Print Properties |
| PrintGrid | Print Properties |
| PrintPageOrientation | Print Properties |
| ReadOnly | Actions |
| ScaleX | Print Properties |
| ScaleY | Print Properties |
| ShapeShdwObliqueAngle | Fill Format |
| ShapeShdwOffsetX | Fill Format |
| ShapeShdwOffsetY | Fill Format |
| ShapeShdwScaleFactor | Fill Format |
| ShapeShdwType cell | Fill Format |
| ShapeSplit | Shape Layout |
| ShapeSplittable | Shape Layout |
| ShdwObliqueAngle | Page Properties |
| ShdwScaleFactor | Page Properties |
| ShdwType | Page Properties |
| SortKey | Actions |
| SortKey | Hyperlinks |
| TagName | Actions |
| TagName | Smart Tags |
| TextPosAfterBullet | Paragraph |
| UIVisibility | Page Properties |
| ViewMarkup | Document Properties |
| X | Annotation |
| X | Smart Tags |
| X Justify | Smart Tags |
| Y | Annotation |
| Y | Smart Tags |
| Y Justify | Smart Tags |
New sections (alphabetical list)
| New section | Description |
|---|---|
| Annotation | Contains information about comments inserted into a document page. |
| Print Properties | Contains information about how the drawing page is formatted on the printer page. |
| Reviewer | Contains identifying information about each document reviewer. |
| Smart Tags | Contains information about smart tags. |
New named rows (alphabetical list)
| New row | Description |
|---|---|
| Actions | Contains information about a menu item on a shortcut (right-click) or smart tag menu. |
| Controls | Contains information about a single control handle. |
| Smart Tags | Contains information about a single smart tag. |
New functions (alphabetical list)
| New function |
|---|
| BLOB |
| BOUND |
| FIND |
| FORMULAEXISTS |
| LEFT |
| LEN |
| LOCALFORMULAEXISTS |
| MID |
| QUEUEMARKEREVENT |
| REPLACE |
| REPT |
| REWIDEN |
| RIGHT |
| RUNMACRO |
| SETATREF |
| SETATREFEVAL |
| SETATREFEXPR |
| SUBSTITUTE |
| TRIM |
| UNICHAR |
For a list of new Automation objects, properties, methods, events, and interfaces, see What's new in Microsoft Office Visio 2003 for Automation developers.
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