From the course: Visio Quick Tips

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Work with swimlanes

Work with swimlanes

From the course: Visio Quick Tips

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Work with swimlanes

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- [Instructor] Swimlane diagrams are built from containers and lists, two Visio structures that give the swim lanes unique capabilities. Each lane is a container and lights up with a green border as you add shapes, whether you drag them in from the stencil or use AutoConnect and Quick Shapes. Containers include built-in headings, so you can label a lane simply by selecting the heading and typing. Swimlane containers reside inside a Visio list, which means you can add new lanes in several ways. Drag one from the cross functional flowchart stencil, hover just outside the left or right end of a swim lane on the lane boundary and then click the insert triangle when it appears. Select an existing swim lane and use keyboard shortcut control D to duplicate the lane and its contents. Right-click any Swimlane heading and select insert Swimlane before or insert Swimlane after. (mouse clicking) You can delete a lane and its contents…

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