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Viewing Shapes
Hi There,
I am very new to Visio and have a question regarding the ability to view shapes. I have MANY different shape categories, and I am designing a drawing for a data center which has many different components. I would like to be able to go to My Shapes and select the category and have it show me the shapes contained within. The Shapes Toolbar does this, but I can only have so many categories in there before it fills up the whole window and then I can’t see anything but the category titles. I can open the My Shapes folder, but then I have to select each category which opens its own window in Visio. This is all very cumbersome, and makes it difficult, especially when trying to browse through the many shapes. Is there some sort of shape viewer which acts like the Shapes toolbar but will allow me to have ALL my shape groups in there? I hope my question makes sense. Thanks!! Debbie |
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Viewing Shapes
My general practice is to create multiple customized stencils for the
environment (infrastructure, servers, network, pci, etc.) This works for me because typically a given data center will have a pretty limited number of product data types (roughly around a hundred or so) that can be segregated by function. With front/back and vertical/horizontal maybe 150 to 200 shapes. May not be the answer you're looking for, but, al "LilDeb" wrote in message ... Hi There, I am very new to Visio and have a question regarding the ability to view shapes. I have MANY different shape categories, and I am designing a drawing for a data center which has many different components. I would like to be able to go to My Shapes and select the category and have it show me the shapes contained within. The Shapes Toolbar does this, but I can only have so many categories in there before it fills up the whole window and then I can’t see anything but the category titles. I can open the My Shapes folder, but then I have to select each category which opens its own window in Visio. This is all very cumbersome, and makes it difficult, especially when trying to browse through the many shapes. Is there some sort of shape viewer which acts like the Shapes toolbar but will allow me to have ALL my shape groups in there? I hope my question makes sense. Thanks!! Debbie |
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