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Jeremy Wheeler

I am an experienced Consulting Architect for VMware’s Professional Services Organization, End-user Computing specializing in VMware Horizon Suite product-line and SDDC. I have over 23 years of experience in the IT industry. In addition to his past experience, I have a passion for technology and thrives on educating customers. Additionally, I have 10 years of hands-on virtualization experience deploying full-life cycle solutions using VMware, CITRIX, and Hyper-V. I also has 18 years of experience in computer programming in various languages ranging from basic scripting to C, C++, PERL, .NET, SQL, and PowerShell. I’ve received acclaim from several clients for my in-depth and varied technical experience and exceptional hands-on customer satisfaction skills. In February 2013, I received VMware’s Spotlight award for my outstanding persistence and dedication to customers and was nominated again in October of 2013. I was awarded 2015 – 2017 vEXPERT.

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Design Tips (Visio and Omnigraffle)

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Jeremy Wheeler
June 23, 2018June 23, 2018 2 mins

Hey everyone, going forward, I will be posting various tips and tricks on creating designs leveraging OmniGraffle and also Excel. I am the creator of the internal VMware Horizon Suite Sizing Estimator, and my nose is buried in excel sheets, daily. When it comes to the creation of designs, that is all I work in now is OmniGraffle. I figure it might help those who also do the same. 

 

Excel Tip:

To subtract 15%, add a negative sign in front of the percentage, and subtract the percentage from 1, using the formula =1-n%, in which n is the percentage. To subtract 15%, use =1-15% as the formula. Example:

Cell A1 Contains 100, Cell B1 Contains 15%

=A1-(A1*B1) = 85

Format your formula like this:

=A1-(1-B1) = 85

Source: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/multiply-by-a-percentage-b7485923-00c1-4d2c-b567-d74d568c4e8f

 

OmniGraffle Tip:

You might have multiple text boxes after a Visio Import, for example:

NewImage

 

 

 

 

To merge these two text boxes into a single text box:

– Select all the text boxes you want to be grouped

– Two Options

    1) From the Menu select ‘Edit > Objects > Unite Shapes’

    2) Right-click on the selected group, select ‘Unite Shapes’

This will form a complete text box that you still can edit.

NewImage

 

 

 

Note: After ‘Unite Shapes’ is selected the text will vanish and it will populate off the canvas. Just drag it back in-place. I have informed OmniGraffle of this odd behavior, and their feedback was “There could be a peculiarity in the object geometry of those text objects in the original Visio file, which made OmniGraffle think that the united object needed to be in an entirely different place on the canvas.”

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