![]() The position tool is located right next to the align tool in the ribbon: The position tool is the one to use when you need to nicely, evenly position shapes in a diagram. Using the align tool is a first step toward harmony in architecture diagrams, there is another tool that can help to organize your shapes. I almost use only the tool for center and middle align, in the example below I start to arrange these messy shapes by using center align twice and middle align once: Oh and by the way, it’s located in the Arrange section of the Home ribbon: Just remember that the first selected shape will not move and be used as a reference, so that the following shapes will align by moving towards the first one. Meet the Align toolĪlready introduced in the previous section, the align does simply what it says: select several shapes, and use the align tool to left, right, center or middle align them. Which seems like a detail but it makes me happy, as it’ much easier to control the position of the shapes like this, especially when working with more than 2 shapes. On the other side Visio keeps the position of the first selected shape:Īlign middle in Visio style: shapes 2 moves towards shape 1 And you see what PowerPoint does ? It creates a new reference by merging the position of both shapes □ The behavior I expect when doing this is to use the first selected shape as a reference, so that only the second selected shape will move to align with the first one. In the GIF below I simply select one shape then another, and use the Align middle feature to align them on the same horizontal line:Īlign middle in PowerPoint style: both shapes moving towards each other ![]() Why I never use PowerPoint for architecture diagramsĪs an introduction to shape alignment, here is one thing that bugs me in PowerPoint that make unusable to me for architecture diagrams. This one is about other tools that will help you to better position your shapes, and have nice perfect straight lines between them. This post is the second of this series, the previous one introduced the basic tools of Visio to manipulate the shapes. "asymptotic to, U+2248" means, more precisely, " almost equal to" often, if the approximation is broader\less precise, ~ is preferred.A I really enjoy making architecture diagrams using Visio, I want to share in a few posts some tips to help you do the same. If text can be entered as HTML, you can also use the following notations: However, in some programming languages, ' ~' is symbolic of NOT (Bitwise), and ' ~=' is therefore somtimes used as a variation of ' !=', which means NOT EQUAL TO.īecause of this potential source of confusion, "=~" is proposed instead. " ~=" is a logical possible expansion of, which many people interpret as "approximatley equals" (rather than as the useage of 'congrunet' in geometry).įurthermore, " ~=" could be read as "approximately equals". ![]() "=~" is an easy to use and easy to remember alternative. Note: In HTML 4 "~" is defined as "varies with" or "similar to".) the ~ symbol is too often to indicate some other meaning (e.g.≅ and ≈ are symbols that are not universally rendered correctly in web browsers (in fact, you may be seeing boxes instead of symbols right now) and are not commonly parsed correctly in web tools like commenting and forums.≅ and ≈ are symbols that are not easy for people to enter in email, forums, etc.The preferred way of symbolizing "approximately equal to" is to use the ≈ symbol, the ~ symbol, or (in some cases) the ≅ symbol (see note 2). "7^2 = 50 (that should be an "is approximately equal to" symbol, but I'm too lazy to figure out how to get one of them)." * email, comment forms, forums, message boards, et cetera Rationale "One gigabyte equals approximately one billion bytes." "One gigabyte is approximately equal to one billion bytes." equals eight million, three hundred eighty-eight thousand, six hundred and eight bits, (which) equals approximately one million bytes." is equal to eight million, three hundred eighty-eight thousand, six hundred and eight bits, (which) is approximately equal to one million bytes." This text can be read aloud as " equals approximately" or " is approximately equal to".
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