starting Visio shows existing drawing instead of blank one

In the last 2 days, when I open Visio (2007 Pro) without specifying a file,
instead of seing a blank drawing, Visio shows me 'drawing1', but it's
actually a drawing I worked on last month (let's call ABC). If I open any
Visio drawing (by file association), the drawing shows up, but 'drawing1'
also opens up with the ABC drawing. If I close the 'drawing1' window, then
save the real drawing I'm working on, when I reopen my drawing, again I'll
also see the 'drawing1' window with the ABC drawing.

Registry 'shellnew' for .vsd is null.

Where do I look ?

On Fri, 22 May 2009 07:54:18 -0700, CV27
wrote:

In the last 2 days, when I open Visio (2007 Pro) without specifying a file,
instead of seing a blank drawing, Visio shows me 'drawing1', but it's
actually a drawing I worked on last month (let's call ABC). If I open any
Visio drawing (by file association), the drawing shows up, but 'drawing1'
also opens up with the ABC drawing. If I close the 'drawing1' window, then
save the real drawing I'm working on, when I reopen my drawing, again I'll
also see the 'drawing1' window with the ABC drawing.

menu File - Save As and enter a new file name, press Save
menu File - Close
menu File - New - New Drawing
Close Visio
delete the file you saved in step 1


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Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
DFD/SSADM for Visio http://www.visio-dfd.sandrila.co.uk/

Thanks Paul for the reply. Unfortunately your suggestion didn't resolve the
issue. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Visio, searched for unusual registry
entries: same issue.

Given that I open Visio without specifying any file and still get that old
drawing as 'drawing1', I suspect it has to do with the template or stencil
normally used by Visio to create a blank drawing; but then, doing "File /
New" within Visio does create a normal blank drawing. Unfortunately, I don't
know the inner workings of Visio to investigate.

Any other suggestion is welcome.

"Paul Herber" wrote:

On Fri, 22 May 2009 07:54:18 -0700, CV27
wrote:

In the last 2 days, when I open Visio (2007 Pro) without specifying a file,
instead of seing a blank drawing, Visio shows me 'drawing1', but it's
actually a drawing I worked on last month (let's call ABC). If I open any
Visio drawing (by file association), the drawing shows up, but 'drawing1'
also opens up with the ABC drawing. If I close the 'drawing1' window, then
save the real drawing I'm working on, when I reopen my drawing, again I'll
also see the 'drawing1' window with the ABC drawing.

menu File - Save As and enter a new file name, press Save
menu File - Close
menu File - New - New Drawing
Close Visio
delete the file you saved in step 1


--
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
DFD/SSADM for Visio http://www.visio-dfd.sandrila.co.uk/

On Tue, 26 May 2009 07:53:01 -0700, CV27
wrote:

Thanks Paul for the reply. Unfortunately your suggestion didn't resolve the
issue. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Visio, searched for unusual registry
entries: same issue.

Given that I open Visio without specifying any file and still get that old
drawing as 'drawing1', I suspect it has to do with the template or stencil
normally used by Visio to create a blank drawing;

No, there's no such thing.
However, it might be an autorecover file, have a look at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829239



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Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
DFD/SSADM for Visio http://www.visio-dfd.sandrila.co.uk/