How to make a box filled with 100% transparent background BY DEFAULT?

[Leslie Brooks]

Whenever I drag a new rectangle box from the stencil pane to my drawing it
is filled with white color. Ok I can change in each box manually the color with 100% transparency.
But is there a way to define 100% background color transparency BY DEFAULT?

Leslie

 

[Paul Herber]

Whenever I drag a new rectangle box from the stencil pane to my drawing it
is filled with white color. Ok I can change in each box manually the color with 100% transparency.
But is there a way to define 100% background color transparency BY DEFAULT?

You can do this on a per document basis.
Drop one rectangle on the page.
menu File -> Shapes -> Show Document Stencil
Double click the rectangle shape and set the transparency
Now all rectangles you drop on the document will have this property.

 

[John... Visio MVP]

Whenever I drag a new rectangle box from the stencil pane to my drawing it
is filled with white color. Ok I can change in each box manually the color
with 100% transparency.
But is there a way to define 100% background color transparency BY
DEFAULT?

Leslie

Do you mean you want no Fill Pattern or a transparent shape?

Each shape is based on a style and the rectangle uses the "Basic" style. So
you can redefine the "Basic" style to have a fill pattern of "None". Of
course, any other shape using that style will also have a fill pattern of
"None"

John... Visio MVP