How to assign a text-variable to a textfield in Visio 2013?

Question

I want to model something in Visio but when I change a word that I'm using often, I don't want to change it manually at all its occurrences.

Example:

My goal: When I change "hi" (inside any of those text fields) to something else like "test" the other text field(s) should also change their text to "test".

Is there an easy way for this?

Answer 1

Try use fields https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Insert-a-text-field-into-a-shape-0225c22e-3e5e-4ea7-9ca0-1ec91386cb1e

as Custom formula use this syntax Shapetext(Sheet.ID!TheText) where ID - is ID-number of reference shape