From the course: Visio 2016 Essential Training
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Insert containers and callouts
From the course: Visio 2016 Essential Training
Insert containers and callouts
- On occasion when working with Shapes in a diagram like our flowchart here, you may have a couple of shapes, maybe two or more shapes, that need to stay together and be shown together in your diagram and there may be shapes that need additional info added to them and you want that info to follow the shape around. We're talking about Containers and Callouts and that's what we're going to work with in this movie. We're going start with the two shapes, the first two steps in the process here after our start shape. If we want those grouped together, yes, we could click one, hold down your shift key, click the other and if we wanted to group them together, we have grouping options up here in the Arrange section of the ribbon with the Home tab selected, but that turns it into one shape. We want each of these shapes to have their own information, so keeping their own information in other words, while staying together in a group. That's where the Container comes in. We get that by going to…
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