Transparent text background in an arrow in Visio

Question

I'm creating a Visio 2013 diagram, and when I add a background colour to the diagram, the text of the arrow looks like this:

I want to remove that white text background, but I can't find how...

I found the solution for Visio 2007 in this post, but it doesn't work for Visio 2013, since there's no “Format” → “Text” menu. There's a “Format Shape” menu instead, but it contains only “Fill” and “Line”, no “Text”!

I tried to change the “Line” colour, and it changes the colour of the line (now is black), but I tried to change the “Fill” colour and it doen't change anything!

score 92 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 11 '13 at 16:20

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It's in the extended Font/Text properties, under Text Block:

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answered Jun 11 '13 at 16:20

Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007

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Thanks very much! I searched evrywhere but there... they couldn't hide it better :) – MikO Jun 11 '13 at 16:42
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Yeah I find in general with the ribbon interface(s), if you can't find it, it's buried under one of those little arrows. :) – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Jun 11 '13 at 17:24
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I would never have found this on my own. Awesome, thanks! – willem Feb 05 '14 at 09:22
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I wish Visio would put this where it obviously belongs (i.e. right clicking the text) – Mike Wise Mar 09 '18 at 11:51
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Works in Office 365 as well as of today. Also submitted feedback to Microsoft that this is too hard to find. – Paul Pehrson May 24 '18 at 22:39
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If you're adjusting this using VBA, you can modify the connector object's shape sheet directly. With `vsoConnector` as a `Visio.Shape`, setting the background to transparent would be: `vsoConnector.CellsSRC(visSectionObject, visRowText, visTxtBlkBkgnd).FormulaU = "0"` – SmrtGrunt Oct 31 '18 at 17:39
@techie007 Is there anyway to have a small halo around the text ... diagram has the text and the underlying arrow in the same colour. Transparent merges the text and line together. – SteveC Feb 05 '20 at 13:08
Keep Solid Color to WHITE -- you would see the text along with the line like >----this way---> – HydTechie Feb 22 '21 at 17:03

Transparent text background in an arrow in Visio

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