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Basic Visio SmartShapes
Visio SmartShapes are the essential ingredients to all drawings. Unlike clipart, SmartShapes can be resized without distortion. They also can be programmed to behave in certain ways. Shapes come in several different flavors, including lines, connectors, and groups. Read more about these in this section.

  Tutorials
  Draw a Rectangle or Square
  Draw a Circle or Oval
  Combine Shapes
  Connect 2-D Shapes
  Connect a Sequence of Shapes
  Set Line Jumps and Routing
  Create Custom Connector
  Overlap Connectors
  Grouping Shapes and Objects
  Add a Drawn Shape to a Group
  Lines are Shapes Too
  Drag Shape to Group
  Convert Metafile to Group
  Edit Shapes Within a Group
  Assign Group to a Layer
  Remove a Shape from a Group
  Rotate the Group or a Shape
  Intersect Shapes
  Fragment Shapes
  Change Line Characteristics
  Adding Line Ends
  Rounding the Corners
  Opening a Stencil
  Finding the Right Stencil
  Add Keywords to Stencil
  Draw an Arc
  Draw a Freeform Shape