Chemical formula shape

[Paul Herber]

I've recently created a shape for showing chemical formulae, H2O upwards! It shows an interesting property of text format fields expanding to suit the entered data.
http://www.paulherber.co.uk/articles/visio-articles/chemistry/

[JuneTheSecond]

Very Cool!
It's a revolution in Visio.

[vojo]

Nice work.....just a thought

If you do this (text with subscripts et al), would you also want a text with bonding lines?

Something like O-H-O kind of thing

Maybe have both flavors in 1 or 2 stencils

Just a thought

[Paul Herber]

Something like O-H-O kind of thing

You read my mind - that will be next - but more than just text.

[vojo]

BTW....if you choose to go down this slippery slope    then

Mind as well think about the following (in ascending difficulty)
   - standard molecules with balls and lines
   - standard molecules with various views (since some may not be symmetric from front)
         - Iso front left top
         - Iso back right bottom
    - VBA to take a text string and create the molecule with balls and such
      (allows user to create non typical molecule pictures)

Just here to help 

[Paul Herber]

  Thanks, Vojo and Junichi.