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Annotate diagrams with callouts

Annotate diagrams with callouts

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Annotate diagrams with callouts

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- [Instructor] Comments can play an important role in annotating a diagram. However, by design, they're a subtle presence in the diagram. There are times when you want your annotations to be more obvious, and that's when callouts enter the picture. Let's start by looking at a stencil full of callouts that's been available in many generations of Visio. To open the callout stencil, go to the Shapes window, click More Shapes, Visio Extras, and then Callouts. As a quick aside, if you're using Visio 2010, as soon as you select any one stencil, the fly-out menus disappear. In Visio 2013 and 2016, they stay open so that you could click on additional stencils if you want to. In my case, I'm finished, so I'll click the background of the page, and the fly-out menus disappear. Let's drag one of the callouts onto the page. Take the tail, and glue it to a shape. Let's add some text to the callout, and there we go. Now, you would think that I could reposition this callout simply by clicking and…

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