Hey Visio Guy, I just wanted to give a quick update on the connector text placement issue. I investigated the problem and I found that the coordinate information was. Microsoft is moving away from software and database diagramming using Visio and instead transitioning into Visual Studio. See the Modeling Projects. As an Office 365 subscriber, you regularly get new and improved Office 2016 features. Take a look below to see whats available to you today. Visio Online is a new. This online course on Microsoft Visio 2016 will teach you how to create WORLD CLASS diagrams. Leverage Visio like a PROVisio Guy Text Along a Connectors Path in Microsoft Visio 2. A feature lacking in Visio, like for EVER, is the ability to align text along a connectors path. Now, Visio 2. 01. Shape. Sheet functions and capabilities finally deliver. 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Microsoft Visio Electrical Stencils' title='Microsoft Visio Electrical Stencils' />In a previous post, I was re creating for fun a flowchart that I had seen in the Sddeutsche Zeitung. In that flowchart, I needed to place connector text along the actual line of the connector. Every time I adjusted the drawing, the angle of the connector changed, and I had to re orient the text using the Text Block Tool. You can see here how I am hastening the onset of arthritis with too much mousing Getting connector text to do this automatically is something Ive wanted to implement for a long, long time. But the Shape. Sheet couldnt do it. I always needed to resort to code to get it to happen. Today, however, I fired up my Visio 2. The result is a connector that places text at the very end, rotated to match the angle of the last part of the connector. No matter how many segments the connector has, what the terminal angle is, or the line style, the text ends up in a reasonable position, and correctly aligned with the end Not bad, eh New Shape. Sheet Capabilities Make it Possible Visio has added two new functions that Ive used in two custom User defined cells of the connectors Shape. Sheet. Take a gander User. Path. End ANGLEALONGPATH Geometry. Path, 1 User. pnt. Path. End POINTALONGPATH Geometry. Path, 1 Not only do we have new functions in Visi. Up until now, we had to refer to Shape. Sheet cells, and only Shape. Sheet cells. But you can see that Geometry. Path refers to a thinga geometry section that is a group of cells. Thats new, and its pretty useful. As you use an automatic connector in Visio, extra segments get added or removed from the connector. This has made it impossible to refer to the last point and next to last point, because Shape. Sheet cells were being created and destroyed as the connector was reconfigured. Now I can simply ask the Shape. Sheet to tell me the angle along the path of Geometry. Path, at 1. 00 along the paths lenght thats the 1 you see in both functionsUsing similar syntax, I can ask for the end point too. The illustrated POINTALONGPATH function tells returns a Visio point structure combination of x and y values for the point which is 1. Geometry. 1. Path. This information was enough for me to relocated the shapes text at the very end of the connector, offset and rotated correctly. Bonus Features. Getting the text to be aligned at the end of the connector was fun. But I thought Hmm. That control handle that you can use to move text on Visios default connectors is also pretty coolSo I added a right click context menu action to allow you to choose. Notice the new, context Action menus that feature the fly out, cascading items You can read about these on John Goldsmiths Custom Context Menus. Heres another look at the variations Have fun with this new connector. 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