Link Text Boxes - D-Tools Forum

ekalpakoff · 08-24-2010, 05:44 PM

Is there are way to create (2) text boxes in Visio and have a long section of text span/continue onto the next block of text? i.e. creating columns?

**Dave Kirn** · 08-25-2010, 01:14 AM

Not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but you could just create two separate text boxes with no border, then create a box for your two "columns"

David_Haddad · 08-25-2010, 07:51 AM

Don't know what you are going after here but since you mention spreadsheet type functionality are you aware that you can embed a spreadsheet right into Visio?

**Dave Kirn** · 08-26-2010, 08:15 PM

Visio lets you do all kinds of cool things with embedded files - we do a lot with spreadsheets and once they are "linked" Visio will update the files each time you open up Visio

ekalpakoff · 08-27-2010, 09:23 PM

I have modified the Visio cover page to include a modified title block that automatically populates the D-Tools scope of work to the the cover page, recently we had a project that had a pretty lengthy SOW and it did not fit in the space allotted so I wanted the text to span to another column next to the first to read like a news paper would, i.e. two columns of text. I could not find a way to make a single block of text format to two columns so I though maybe there was a way to link to boxes together to make it work.