How do I prevent the shapes window from appearing on startup?

[shipr]

I don't want the shapes window, but cannot find how to keep it from appearing
when I start Visio.

 

[Shahzad Godil]

Are you using any Template?. We are giving our template file name in
shortcut, to start our Visio based solution and it is not showing Visio
template selection window. Contact me on msn messenger if you want any help
on this.

Shahzad Godil
Karachi-Pakistan
MSN Messenger : (e-mail address removed)

 

[shipr]

Thanks for your reply.

I am not using a Template, nor a shortcut. Instead, I double-click in
Explorer on the file I want. In previous versions, the file is opened, and
the shapes file I used to create it appears on the left side. Recently I
upgraded to a later version of Visio (2003). Now I get a shapes search
window, which is twice as wide as the window I want. So every time I open a
file, I have to first close the shapes window, which I never want, and then
resize the shapes window I do want to its correct size again.

I searched for an option to say, "Don't give me the Search for Shapes"
window by default on startup, but found nothing.

I am not familiar with Templates, but if there is a way to accomplish this
by specifying some default Template (since there is no shortcut involved),
that would be great.