Default fill

Somehow I seem to have changed the default fill color. If I drag a
shape onto the page, it has a light blue fill. I am quite sure it used
to be white or possible nothing.

How can I change it back?

Ensure that nothing is selected, then click the down arrow on the Fill Color
toolbar button, and select Use Default.

"Catch 23" wrote in message
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Somehow I seem to have changed the default fill color. If I drag a
shape onto the page, it has a light blue fill. I am quite sure it used
to be white or possible nothing.

How can I change it back?

--
David Parker
Microsoft MVP (Visio)
http://bvisual.spaces.live.com
http://www.visualizinginformation.com

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:44:29 +0100, "David Parker"
wrote:

Ensure that nothing is selected, then click the down arrow on the Fill Color
toolbar button, and select Use Default.

If I click on the Fill down arrow, I get a grid of colors with "No
fill" at the top and "More colors..." at the bottom. There is no "Use
default" that I can see. I tried it with nothing selected and with an
new empty document.

I am using Visio 2003.

"Catch 23" wrote in message
.. .
Somehow I seem to have changed the default fill color. If I drag a
shape onto the page, it has a light blue fill. I am quite sure it used
to be white or possible nothing.

How can I change it back?

On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:51:16 -0700, Catch 23
wrote:

Somehow I seem to have changed the default fill color. If I drag a
shape onto the page, it has a light blue fill. I am quite sure it used
to be white or possible nothing.

How can I change it back?

menu Format - Define Styles
click the Fill button and change as required.


--
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
Electrical for Visio http://www.electrical.sandrila.co.uk/

Is this true of all shapes or just those previously placed?

Wapperdude



"Catch 23" wrote:

Somehow I seem to have changed the default fill color. If I drag a
shape onto the page, it has a light blue fill. I am quite sure it used
to be white or possible nothing.

How can I change it back?

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:01:01 +0100, Paul Herber
wrote:

On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:51:16 -0700, Catch 23
wrote:

Somehow I seem to have changed the default fill color. If I drag a
shape onto the page, it has a light blue fill. I am quite sure it used
to be white or possible nothing.

How can I change it back?

menu Format - Define Styles
click the Fill button and change as required.

In the Fill panel,

* The [Color:] field is set to [01: and what looks like white].
* The [Pattern:] field is set to [01: Solid].
* The [Pattern color:] field is greyed out.
* The [Transparency:] slider is set to [0%].
* The [Preview] window looks white.

I then dragged a square onto the page. It looks light blue to me. If I
click on the Fill down arrow, then [More colors...], then the Custom
tab, it says the color parameters are Red: 232, Green: 238, and Blue:
247.

If I drag another square and change the fill to White, there is a
marked difference, so I don't think it's my old eyes.

If I print that page, the default square is greyish (on a black and
white printer) and the white square is white.

I just uploaded a document with three squares: default (blueish),
white, and no fill:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/gxsntq

After I uploaded that document, I happened to click on Define Styles
with the object selected and I noticed that it said the style
associated with that square was named [Basic] and the [Based on:]
field said [Visio 00].

I closed out, deselected everything, reopened Define Styles, selected
Visio 00, and clicked on Fill. There it is. Visio 00 is set to a light
blue color. Changing it to white fixes the problem for all of the
shapes.

What is Visio 00 and how could it have gotten changed to a light blue
fill?

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:35:02 -0700, WapperDude
wrote:

Is this true of all shapes or just those previously placed?

It's true of all shapes from the Basic shapes stencil. See my reply to
Paul.

I now know how to fix it for a particular document, but how do I fix
it for all documents? I changed the Visio 00 style in the document I
uploaded, but if I create a new document, the Visio 00 style still has
a light blue fill.


Wapperdude



"Catch 23" wrote:

Somehow I seem to have changed the default fill color. If I drag a
shape onto the page, it has a light blue fill. I am quite sure it used
to be white or possible nothing.

How can I change it back?

My Basic shapes have a light blue fill. I think this IS the default. It is
very light, almost white -- to those of us who work in bright offices.

Wapperdude


"Catch 23" wrote:

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:35:02 -0700, WapperDude
wrote:

Is this true of all shapes or just those previously placed?

It's true of all shapes from the Basic shapes stencil. See my reply to
Paul.

I now know how to fix it for a particular document, but how do I fix
it for all documents? I changed the Visio 00 style in the document I
uploaded, but if I create a new document, the Visio 00 style still has
a light blue fill.


Wapperdude



"Catch 23" wrote:

Somehow I seem to have changed the default fill color. If I drag a
shape onto the page, it has a light blue fill. I am quite sure it used
to be white or possible nothing.

How can I change it back?

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:28:01 -0700, WapperDude
wrote:

My Basic shapes have a light blue fill. I think this IS the default. It is
very light, almost white -- to those of us who work in bright offices.

Is there a way to change the default for all documents or at least all
new documents?

I used Define Styles to change the both the Basic and Visio 00 styles,
but they only apply to that document.

Can I change a style in something like Word's Normal.dot and have it
apply to all documents?

Yes, you can by editing the default template you use - in my example I'll use Cross Functional Flowchart template.
1- Open the template.
file - open - go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Visio11\1033 - select BPXFUN_U.VST.
2- Edit the Style you use.
while nothing is selected
Format - Define Styles - Under Style section Select the Style you want to edit from the dropdown window - Under Change section Click on Text button and edit text format - Click on Line button and edit Line format - Click on Fill button and edit Filling format - Click Ok
3- Save changes to default template.
File - Save.

Now you can use the new format whenever you create a new draw from Cross Functional Flowchart template.

Enjoy!
Abu Sulaiman