Comments on: Visio and IA Tip – hide and show annotations

By: maadonna

maadonna — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:52:54 +0000

Barb – here’s one for creating a TOC: http://stephenturbek.com/2007/04/automatically-create-table-of-contents.html

By: Barb

Barb — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:14:21 +0000

Donna – First, i’m wanting to use the TOC macro for visio documents that have multiple tabs…so a line item and/or link for each tab. Will this do that?

And I’m not a programmer and have no idea how to get this macro into visio. is there some way that I just cut and paste it?

Thanks so much!

By: Bas Schipper

Bas Schipper — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:42:49 +0000

Thanks for sharing this as it is exactly what I was looking for. Works great in Visio 2007 as well.

By: Donna Spencer

Donna Spencer — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:25:16 +0000

Thanks Yaniv. I think I’ve fixed that.

By: Yaniv Nord

Yaniv Nord — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:43:58 +0000

Donna,

First of all thanks for this Macro. It’s exactly what I was looking for. To a tee.

There is one very minor issue that folks should be aware of when trying to copy and paste the above item into visio: The quotation marks wrapping the string “annonation” are of the curly variety (sometimes called smartquotes), rather than straight. The macro will not run as intended unless you change the quotation marks to straight quotes in your VB editor.

Thank you.
Yaniv Nord
Brooklyn, New York

By: Lori Caruso

Lori Caruso — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:20:02 +0000

I agree that Visio needs this functionality built in! Of COURSE, users want to hide them on every page, or show them on every page most often!!! LOL

However, I’ve found a work-around that I’m quite happy with. It involves creating a PDF.
Adobe Acrobat writer 8.0 allows you to maintain layers. Then, when you view the document in Acrobat reader 8.0, you can display a layers tab, much like the bookmarks tab. You can hide and show each layer throughout the document. It’s very cool for using wireframes in review sessions with the client, and then hiding the notes layers for user assessments. It’s also helpful for creating a layer to include drop-down components in the Visio, which you can turn on to show all of the drop-downs expanded at once.

By: Xander

Xander — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:21:00 +0000

Great macro! I’ve wanted to figure out how to do this for a while. Thanks!

By: Donna Maurer

Donna Maurer — Tue, 09 May 2006 11:11:13 +0000

I’d do that in Excel – use the group feature to expand and collapse.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 07 May 2006 02:00:08 +0000

Hi Donna

I have not used Visio yet, but am wondering if it would be useful for a project I am working on at the moment.

I’m looking for an app you could use for a sitemap (tree style) that would keep an ID number, URL, and title for each page, for say 500 – 1200 pages. And with the ability to collapse / open nodes.

Is this something you would expect to be able to do with Visio?

Cheers