How do I create shape menus in Visio?

[tim500]

Instead of just having 1 favorites menu of custom shapes in Visio, I want to
create mutliple custom shape menus (like the default ones such as
Backgrounds, Border and Titles, Computers and Monitors, etc). Any advice
would be helpful.

Thanks in advance.

 

[John Goldsmith]

Hello Tim,

For stencils you could try the following:

1) Add a new folder somewhere in your My Documents folder called Stencils
(eg: C:\Documents and Settings\[Username]\My Documents\Stencils)

2) Add another folder to the above for each of your categories (ie
....\Backgrounds)

3) Add a the stencil files to your respective folders

4) In Visio click Tools / Options / Advanced / File Paths... and in the
Stencils textbox browse to the C:\Documents and Settings\[Username]\My
Documents\Stencils folder

You should now have a category for each of your folders containing the
associated stencils.

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith
www.visualSignals.typepad.co.uk
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