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Message: [QUOTE="Barb Way, post: 5097991"] Shape Data sets are your friend! Try these steps: 1. Open a drawing and your stencil (opened for editing), and drag one of your shapes out to a drawing page. 2. Turn on the Shape Data window (View > Shape Data Window), if it is not already displayed. 3. Select the shape on the page which has Shape Data. 4. In a blank area of the Shape Data window, right click and select Shape Data Sets 5. Click Add to create a new set. a. Type a name for the set b. Choose the option "Create a new set from the shape selected in Visio", and click OK 6. In the Shape Data Sets window, select your new data set, and click Define. 7. In the Define Shape Data dialog, remove the properties that you no longer want to have defined in your set, click OK. (You can also edit others and add new ones) 8. Assign the data set to your stencil shapes: a. Select all of the Masters in your stencil (click one and Ctrl-A to select all will work) b. Place a check mark in the box to the left of the desired data set c. Under 'Apply checked shape data sets to:', change the option to 'Shapes selected in stencil' d. IF Desired, place a check mark next to 'Remove existing data sets' e. Click OK to apply the data set to all of your masters. That should take care of you. Barb Way Product Support - Visio Microsoft Corporation [This posting is provided "As Is" with no warranties, and confers no rights.] -------------------- I just upgraded to Visio 2007. Basically, I am using export wizard to create a database for a number of stencil files we have. What we have is several files that hold symbols that contain information to create a bill of materials when our designers use our stencils to make designs. I am able to go through and change pricing, etc. to update the stencil files, which is great What I am needing to do is go into these hundreds of existing stencils and update them by deleting two custom properties fields. I do not want to do this individually. I tried exporting only the fields I need into the excel database, but when I import the database back into my stencils/symbols, it does not get rid of the two custom properties fields. Is there a way to delete these fields throughout the whole stencil file at one time? This needs to be done in the master stencil file and not on the drawing itself. Thanks [/QUOTE]

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