From the course: Visio Desktop: Tips and Tricks
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Annotate diagrams with callouts
From the course: Visio Desktop: Tips and Tricks
Annotate diagrams with callouts
- [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 flyout menus disappear. In Visio 2013 and later they stay open so you can select additional stencils if you want to. In my case, I'm finished, so I'll click the background of the page and the flyout 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 dragging, but…
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