I did my little experiments in Visio 2003. In 2007 it does not work any
more. I give up.

"Philippe C." wrote:

This looked an easy one I could resolve. Nevertheless I fell in the trap and
experienced the same problem.

The first thing I found in the help system that we can still ad a shadow if
the shape is not closed. The shadow worked.
Then I found in the Help system :
"To close the shape, drag the endpoint of the last segment you create over
the vertex at the beginning of the first segment.
The shape becomes opaque, indicating it’s a closed shape."

Maybe you had trouble with the snap and glue, so that it did not become
closed.
Grouping has nothing to do with it.

Try drawing a rectangle with lines and experience the opaqueness.


"jlschuck" wrote:

I made a shape using the arcs and lines. The shape is closed. I grouped the
elements and then tried to format the fill. The dialog box for the format
fill function indicates that the fill of the shape is changed to the new
color, however when I look at the shape on the drawing it is still white.

Does anyone know what is wrong?