Set default line format

[Jack]

Looked everywhere and feeling dumber than a rock!

Can you set the default line formatting for corner rounding? I use the
second choice in my start up package.

I would like to set it to use this as the default when drawing a line.

Thanks in advanced!!

Jakc

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Hi Jack,

There's no Visio equivalent to the Normal.dot that Word users know and love.
However, you can get close.

When you start a new drawing, select NO shapes, then choose the line
rounding that you love - most easily with the Corner Rounding button on the
Format Shape toolbar.

Anything you draw after that will take this rounding. But shapes that you
drop on the page from stencils won't - they've been pre-formatted.

Your second option is to build a template (.vst) file that you use instead
of Blank Drawing. You can add styles to this drawing, set the rounding, open
the stencils that you use, add background pages, company logos, etc. to this
drawing so that your page is as-ready-to-go as possible. Then you can base
all your new drawings on this template.

Note, to get your template to show up in the File > New > Choose Drawing
Type screen, visit the template path settings located under: Tools > Options

Advanced > File paths button.

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

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[Jack]

Couldnt get it to work.
I have Visio 2003 office is there something in options or customize I need
to have checked? I have a blank starter drawing. The tab's are cover,index
and background and I insert sheets as needed for electronic drawings( is the
insert sheet not taking on the rounding format?).

You 1st response did answer another probple I was working on though!

 

[Jack]

Thanks to you Chris you rattled my head and this seems to work:

open drawing and draw a "L" shaped line and keep it selected.
choose format-> define styles-> select lines set all the line properties you
want on startup then click ok
on the "define styles screen" click preserve local format on apply check box.

delete the line you made and save the file. The format was there when I
opened it up and tested line format (curve and weigh)

Thanks Chris for the brain rattle!

Jack

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Way to go, Jack!

If you find yourself upgrading to Visio 2007, take note that the Define
Styles menu item gets buried. You have to check "Developer Mode" under Tools

Options > Advanced tab to get it to show up(!)

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

Free Visio shapes:
http://www.visguy.com/category/shapes
Visio programming info:
http://www.visguy.com/category/programming/
Other Visio resources:
http://www.visguy.com/visio-links/