From the course: Advanced Visio: Working with Data
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Insert display fields
From the course: Advanced Visio: Working with Data
Insert display fields
- [Narrator] Once you've entered data into a diagram, it's logical that you'll want to make use of that data. One of the most common ways is to display text on or near a shape. In Visio, one way to do that is by inserting a field. In this diagram, I'm going to select a shape and on the Insert tab, I'm going to choose Field. In the left side of this dialogue in the Category section you notice we can display shape data fields or rather the values contained in shape data fields, data and time fields, information about the document or the page, information about the geometry of the shapes as well as some other choices. We're gonna choose Shape Data. In the Field name section of this dialogue, you'll see all of the fields that are displayed in the Shape Data dialogue over on the right side of the screen. I'm gonna choose Description and click OK. And now you'll notice that our shape includes the words Ethiopian Star. Why…
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