How to stop Visio 2003 from always opening shapes window?

[DBStolz]

My work computer was just upgraded to Visio 2003 SP1. Now, every time I open
an existing drawing, it opens the Shapes window and a stencil. How do I
disable that behavior?

 

[Chris Roth [ Visio MVP ]]

you should be able to close the stencil and shapes window, then save the
drawing.

If that doesn't work, note that when you look at the Save button in the Save
dialog (or Save As...) , you can actually drop it down to reveal a
"Workspace" item. Make sure that's checked, and Visio will save the windows
and their positions associated with the drawing.


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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

 

[Shahzad Godil]

Custom Callouts is working exactly how I want. But it is not working on my
required case.

1. I want to customize basic flow chart stencil and added one custom
callout.

2. Modified Process shape in stencil and added that callout in its master
shape.

3. Process already have different custom proeprties attached.

4. First problem is that I was not able to set the callout properties in
master shape editor.

5. Also even when I tried to drop that process shape with callout, it is not
recognizing exact attached shapes.

Please help.

Thanks

Shahzad Godil

 

[DBStolz]

Chris,
I was closing the window before saving, and when I clicked on the Save
As drop-down button, 'Wokspace' is checked. At first I thought it was because
I chose to save all files as Visio 2002 in Tools->Options, but I finally
discovered that I have to manually close the stencil by right-clicking on it
and choosing 'Close', or right-clicking in the Shapes bar and choosing 'Close
all stencils'. It's very strange, because it was opening the Metric
Flowcharts stencil, which I hadn't opened in the first place (I used the US
one)! Thanks for trying.

--David