Angry: Must I now redo ALL my 2002 UI mockups to 2003...?

[Mike]

All,

I've just upgraded from Visio 2002 to 2003. I built several mockups in V2002
of a software UI that uses the "Blank Form" shape quite a bit. Unfortunately,
in V2003, that shape looks quite a bit different than it did in the previous
version (as do the tab controls, etc.).

Besides uninstalling the update, is there a way to go back to the previous
appearance of the Windows components? Are they stored in a stencil somewhere
that I'm just not seeing? Or must I now redo all of my older mockups so that
they conform to the new ones I build...?

Thanks for any help,
Mike

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

Yes, Visio replaced the previous Windows UI shapes with new shapes to match
the Windows XP style of controls. We did not preserve the older shapes.
Call it a poor decision on our part.

Any drawings you have already created with the Visio 2002 shapes will work
just fine in 2003. You can also go to File > Shapes > Show Document Stencil
to get at the local stencil where the 2002 shapes are stored in each file.