Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Step by Step

Glossary

A

attributes

Qualities of text or shapes that you can format, including text font and color; line color, ends, weight, and pattern; and fill color, pattern, and shadow, and so on. See also formatting.

B

background page

A second drawing page that appears behind the primary drawing page in a diagram and usually contains background shapes.

backbone

The physical network configuration, or topology, that you can depict in a network diagram by using a shape such as the Ethernet shape on the Network and Peripherals stencil. See also network ring.

begin point

The selection handle that appear at the start of a selected 1-D shape and is marked by ×. See also endpoints; end point.

C

closed shape

A 2-D shape, such as a box, with a solid border to which you can ...