Highlight multiple shapes in a selection individually?

[Aussie Susan]

When multiple shapes are selected at the same time, Visio (2003 by the way)
draws a large selection box around the outside of all of the selected shapes.

For the work I'm doing, I would rather show the user the individual shapes
that are in the selection (i.e highlight the individual shapes rather than a
single box that surrounds them all).

Is this possible? If so, how can this be controlled.

Thanks

Susan

PS I'm using both ShapeSheets and VBA for this work so I would prefer if the
alternatives were limited to these (as opposed to COM add-ins and the like)

 

[JuneTheSecond]

Perhaps no.
My alternative is to change line color of selected shapes, and deselect all.

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

You must make sure you remember who was selected and you must remember the
original line colour so that you can restore it when the operation is
finished.

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[Aussie Susan]

John,

Thanks for the additional information on June's comment.

In my situation I'm able to control the line colours everywhere, so I have
decided that selected cells can have a coloured (non-black) border line, and
the line colour for non-selected cells can always be black. This also means
that I can scan all of the shapes for non-black lines and reconstruct the
'selected' set (if I ever loose this information).

Thanks to you and June

Susan