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keyboard shortcuts and mouse techniques. Visualizing Information w ith Microsoft Visio 2007
The Visio keyboard shortcuts that were sharing with you today will allow
you push, pull and prod Visio in a fashion that seems almost natural. By
learning them, the drudgery of tasks that you need to perform often will
become reactionary, and almost invisible!
The opposite of the previous shortcut, holding down the Ctrl + Shift keys and clicking the right mouse
button zooms you out to half the previous level.
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Zoom to Region: Ctrl + Shift + Left Mouse-drag
You can specify exactly where you want to zoom with this command. Press the Ctrl + Shift keys together,
then hold the left mouse button. You can now drag a net around the area that you want to zoom. Visio will
fill the window with the region that you specify.
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Pan: Ctrl + Shift + Right Mouse-drag
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Hold down the right mouse-button to push and pull your page to the desired location. Youll see the little
hand cursor which lets you know that youre ready to pan.
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Wheel-mouse Zooming & Panning
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If you have a roller mousethat is, a mouse that has a wheel, you can zoom and pan with these
alternative techniques.
You dont need to hold down any special keys to to pan up and down with the wheel. Just roll the wheel
forward to pan the page downwards, and roll the wheel backward to pan the page upwards.
Holding the Shift key while rolling allows you to pan left and right. With the Shift key held down, just roll
the wheel forward to pan to the right, and roll the wheel backward to pan to the left.
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Zoom In & Out: Ctrl + Wheel forward/backward
General Shortcuts
The following keyboard shortcuts arent worth categorizing, but are worth learning! Youll perform these
functions a lot, so they can really save you a lot of time and effort!
A lot of Visio tools are mixed-mode, meaning functions overlap. For instance, you can still select
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Note: you can select the other drawing tools with other Ctrl + Numb er combinations.
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Note: you can select the other drawing tools with other Ctrl + Numb er combinations.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Ctrl + 2: Text Block Tool
Ctrl + 3: Connector Tool Computer Keyboards
Ctrl + 4: Pencil Tool
Ctrl + 5: Freeform Tool Work Flow Chart
Ctrl + 6: Line Tool
Ctrl + 7: Arc Tool 5 Button Mouse
Ctrl + 8: Rectangle Tool
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Ctrl + 9: Ellipse Tool
This is pretty standard Windows stuff. Sometimes you want to move or delete everything on the page. Keyboard And Mouse
With this command, you dont need to zoom out to see everything. Just quickly select all the shapes and
proceed with whatever you wanted to do.
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Speaking of standard Wndows behavior, you can also duplicate shapes via Ctrl + Left mouse-drag.
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Save File: Alt + F, S
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Ok, Visio has an Auto-save feature. But now that you have learned all these shortcuts, youll be working
so fast, youll want to save more often then Microsoft deems necessary. Plus some of you probably turn
Auto-save off because it can be annoying.
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Edit: Reader Steve has pointed out a that Ctrl + S is a quicker and better way to save a file!
I like Alt + F, S and Alt + F, A for Save and Save As, respectively because they are similar, and
occupy a similar compartment in my mind.
Youve zoomed WAY in. Youve finished getting your details just so. Now you want to step back and have
a look. You can either zoom out fifteen times, or
You now have to press Ctrl + Shift to zoom to the whole page! Ctrl + W now closes the document!
Whether your working on several drawings at once, have a bunch of group windows open, or are
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switching between several ShapeSheet windows, youll get it done a lot faster if you keep your thumb on
the Ctrl key and another finger hovering over the Tab key.
Edit: Reader Mark Nelson has pointed out somewhat related shortcuts: you can quickly switch
between pages in a document using the Ctrl + Page Up and Ctrl + Page Down key combinations.
Developer Shortcuts
For those of you who have dug a little deeper into the crazy world of Visio and have a need to create
SmartShapes, work with ShapeSheet formulas, or automate tasks using the built-in Visual Basic for
Applications programming environment, then theres a couple of shortcuts for you!
Yes, you can get a Show ShapeSheet menu item in your right-click context menu by turning on Developer
Mode (You do this via: Tools > Options > Advanced Tab , then check: Run in developer mode) But if youre
a two-handed Visio user, your right hand will be hovering over the Alt, W and S keys, just waiting for a
chance to fire-up the ShapeSheet!
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Show VBA Editing Environment: Alt + F11
Do you really want to fish through the cascading menus for:Tools > Macro > Visual Basic Editor every
time you want to slam out a bit of test-code? Of course you dont. Just hit Alt + F11. I bet a lot of Visio
MVPs dont even know where the menu item is!
Hopefully, these tips will increase your productivity with Visio, and improve your overall experience as
well.
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If youre in need of more keyboard shortcuts, check out some of these links below. While they were
created for older versions of Visio, most of the shortcuts still apply, even in Visio 2007!
Visio 2002 Shortcut Keys A nice Visio drawing in VSD format from Visio Cafe.
Visio 2002 Shortcut Reference A Microsoft-provided guide, which downloads an EXE that simply
unzips a good-looking PDF to your hard drive.
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Visio 2003 Keyboard Shortcut Mousepad Keep those shortcuts handy, and your mouse-hand
cozy! From Dan Brown on greenions.
Visio 2003 Keyboard Shortcuts A boring but well-organized collapsable list of Visio shortcuts from
Microsoft.
Visio 2003 Quick Guide A nice PDF file from the folks at Ball State University.
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73 Comments
@Bill Bates,
Thanks for sharing! I truly believe the experience w ith Visio is so much better w hen users can pan and zoom
w ithout thinking about it. I see too many novice users w ho lose their trains of thought w hen they have to look for
pan and zoom controls.
Jim says:
April 20, 2012 at 7:50 pm
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Nice list!
Ive been using Visio for years (since it first came outoh, the days of Win 3.1 w ith Visio or ABC Flow charter).
Ive been trying to find the w hole page view button for some time thats an excellent find. And Id never heard
of the Zoom to Region feature very nice (though I use the Shift/Ctrl and mouse w heel to same effect).
Kevin says:
June 8, 2012 at 5:17 pm
Kevin
Wayne says:
June 28, 2012 at 11:30 pm
Demron says:
August 13, 2012 at 1:39 pm
I w ould like a quick w ay to add a guide to a shape for example if I have a repetitive block in
draw ing a fence. it w ould be quick to something to add a Guide to the left/right/top/bottom.
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Hi Demron,
You can group shapes and guides together, but youd have to ungroup to see the guide.
A draw ing technique might help: You could just make, say one piece of your fence and put a guide next to it.
Then, select both the guide and the shape, and do a Ctrl + drag to make a copy of it. You can then hit F4 and you
w ill get repetitive copies of both shapes, w ith the same offset as you did before.
Its a great technique that I use all the time to create row s and columns of equally-spaced shapes.
Carlos says:
September 8, 2012 at 2:18 am
We use Visio 2007, and this article from 2008 w as exactly w hat I w as looking for to tell me how to
pan and zoom, and the extra mouse/keyboard shortcuts w ere a nice bonus.
Forrest says:
September 17, 2012 at 10:12 am
Luan says:
October 25, 2012 at 5:12 pm
Hi,
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I am using 2010 and there use the new SmartShape w ith Autoconnect: Mouse over the shape until the 4 triangle
appear, and click on it w hich creates the new shape in the right place and connected to the master shape.
Now mouseover and click on the little triangle can slow you dow n w hen youre past the complete novice stage.
But I cant seem to find a short cut for this? Any suggestion?
Thank you,
Luan
Hi Luan,
Good point. I dont think there are any keyboard shortcuts that replace w hat the blue arrow s do. The w ay I
usually w ork is to just draw the flow chart shapes first, then connect them later using the connector tool.
I find that I can rapidly create shapes by Ctrl+dragging duplicates of shapes already on the page. Once Ive got 5
or 10 or 15, I can go back and connect them w ith the connector tool, dragging from center to center for each
shape. No w aiting for blue arrow s to show up!
Sharon says:
July 3, 2013 at 1:58 am
Aw esome! Thank you so much for these shortcuts. They w ill make my life a lot easier!
Acarlon says:
July 16, 2013 at 5:26 am
Thanks. Spent ages trying to find how to tab betw een pages.
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Mike says:
Dec ember 20, 2013 at 10:38 pm
Is there any w ay to get Visios pan to function like AutoCAD (and other drafting softw are)? In other
w ords w hen you click the middle mouse button (or w heel), you can then pan the view by moving the mouse
around. Panning in X or Y directions only w hile holding CTRL or SHIFT is bogus as is the silly auto pan feature
w hen you tilt the w heel side to side.
Thanks.
Hi Mike,
If I press my roller mouse dow n, I then get the fly around behavior that I think youre asking for. I didnt do
anything special for this. My mouse isnt a traditional three-button mouse, but I can click the roller like a button, it
is similar.
You can also pan vertically by rolling the mouse w heel, and horizontally by Shift + rolling the mouse w heel.
I dont find Ctrl + Shift + right drag silly at all. Many draw ing apps have the hand feature for panning. Visio
doesnt have it as a dedicated tool, but the keyboard shortcuts give it to you temporarily, w hich is exactly w hat
you w ant. I find it fast and accurate. Where as the flying around is not accurate, and is hard to stop right w here
you w ant.
Mike says:
Dec ember 20, 2013 at 11:47 pm
When I press the w heel button, I get the fly around thing w hich is not very helpful as you indicate.
What Im looking for is a quick w ay to get full X-Y panning like you get in CAD tools (AutoCAD, Revit, Sketchup,
etc.). Tools like Photoshop, Acrobat also honor X-Y panning via middle click.
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Im ready to completely quit using Visio because of this limitation. I can actually draft things faster in AutoCAD
and then import into Visio and save as a Visio file than I currently can do trying to draft directly in Visio.
Mike says:
Dec ember 20, 2013 at 11:51 pm
I should add that CTRL-SHIFT plus right mouse button does to the X-Y panning but it is rather
cumbersome for such a basic function. I guess Im ranting more than anything here. Was hoping there w ould be
a w ay that I w as missing to make X-Y panning easier to get at.
[] (move to the front,) Atl-F6 (zoom in,) and Alt-shift-F6 (zoom out). I keep a few links handy Visguy and
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Josh says:
February 10, 2015 at 11:10 pm
While I dont expect Mike w ill ever be coming back to see this I thought Id share for those, like me,
w ho had the same question. I w as able to get this remapped using AutoHotKey w ith a little bit of fiddling using
the follow ing script:
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#IfWinActive , Visio Professional
MButton::Send {Control dow n}{Shift dow n}{RButton dow n}
MButton up::Send {RButton up}{Control up}{Shift up}
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March 20, 2015 at 2:45 am
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jerz says:
July 29, 2015 at 11:38 pm
Im new to AutoHotKey, so maybe i didnt copy/paste Joshs script correctly. Anyw ays, here is
w hat ended up w orking for me:
jerz says:
July 30, 2015 at 12:10 am
Im new to AutoHotKey, so maybe i didnt copy/paste Joshs script correctly. Anyw ays, here is
w hat ended up w orking for me:
What I also found is that some w eb brow sers make the title of the w indow the same as the title of the tab you
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are view ing. So changing the active w indow title to just visio w ould cause it to be active on this page as w ell.
Or any other w indow that has visio anyw here in the title. Which is w hy I w ent w ith Microsoft Visio in the
script.
Anyw ays, w orks w ell and Im happy. Thanks for the tip Josh!
jerz says:
July 30, 2015 at 12:12 am
uh. not sure how i messed that up, sorry. here is the post I meant to make.
Found an issue w ith my last script. Ended up being active for all w indow s Some more digging I found that I
had a problem w ith Joshs script because of the Title Match setting. Changing the mode to match on any hits for
my Title seemed to be the fix. Script below .
SetTitleMatchMode 2
What I also found is that some w eb brow sers make the title of the w indow the same as the title of the tab you
are view ing. So changing the active w indow title to just visio w ould cause it to be active on this page as w ell.
Or any other w indow that has visio anyw here in the title. Which is w hy I w ent w ith Microsoft Visio in the
script.
Anyw ays, w orks w ell and Im happy. Thanks for the tip Josh!
I love the scroll w heel based shortcuts here. I used to use them all the time. But MS changed them
in Visio 2010 and it is painful.
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Give me back the old pan (scroll w heel for up and dow n and shift+scroll w heel for left and right) shortcuts.
JAR
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