Combine or merge

[Denny]

I downloaded a Cisco stencil of my router then pasted a few pictures of ports
on the stencil so it correctly depicts my particular router configuration.

How do I combine these into a single picture now? I tried to combine them
via the Shape-Operation menu but I lose all the graphics and get a simple
outline.

I tried to group them together, but when I drop the stencil on my drawing,
the Original Cisco stencil is huge and my added pictures are small.

Thanks,

Denny

 

[Chris Roth [Visio MVP]]

Hi Denny,

See if you can "open the group" and paste your stuff inside.

Select a shape, then choose Edit > Open Group (or something like Edit >
Open Cisco Blah Blah...)

Now you can paste your images inside! But watch out for a bug. Sometimes
when you paste, the pasted shapes end up way down, and to the left. So
zoom out to find them and move them to the correct location.

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP


Visio Guy: Smart Graphics for Visual People
http://www.visguy.com

 

[Paddy]

Hi Denny,

See if you can "open the group" and paste your stuff inside.

Select a shape, then choose Edit > Open Group (or something like Edit

Now you can paste your images inside! But watch out for a bug.
Sometimes when you paste, the pasted shapes end up way down, and to
the left. So zoom out to find them and move them to the correct
location.

Or - easier - have the Size & Postion window open. When the object is
pasted into an open group it is, at that point, selected. Its (crazy)
position shows in the Size & Position window. Simply give x and y position
within the window (0,0 usually suffice)

Alternatively, as I discovered (see earlier post), one can set Behaviour
properties of the object to drop into a group; set the target group's
Behaviour properties to accept dropped objects.

Paddy