Where are the stencils?

[Nick Pomponio]

I just upgraded from Visio 10 to Visio 11 Professional.

In previous versions, if I open the Stencils dialog, the
stencils are categorized into folders. When I try to
open a stencil in Visio 11, it first takes me to My
Shapes (in which there are no stencils). When I
navigate to \Program Files ... \Visio 11\1033, I
get a list of all stencils in a single directory and all
file names are in 8.3 format. Surely I must have
something misconfigured. In the help, it says that
certain software stencils are in the Software directory.
Where is that?

TIA for any help!

-Nick

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

Visio 2003 places all content files in the same directory on disk. However,
the stencils are still arranged by folders in the menu system. Go to File >
Shapes to see them.

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

and the explanation of the 8.3 names?

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[Mark Nelson [MS]]

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column in the Excel spreadsheet tracking the file list.

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[Nick Pomponio]

Mark,

Thanks. I am used to clicking on the Open Stencils
toolbar button in previous versions to get a list of
stencils. When that button opened up the
aforementioned dialog, I was perplexed and
assumed that I had created problems by having
both 2002 and 2003 versions installed.

I will retrain myself accordingly. This old dog can,
in fact, learn new tricks.

-Nick