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Visio shapes & how to show all in toolbox
Does anyone know how to show all of the shape groupings, aka
Templates, (Business, Engineering, Flowchart, General....) in the Shapes toolbar that is on the left hand side of the screen? |
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Visio shapes & how to show all in toolbox
On May 20, 10:35*am, hrricane34 wrote:
Does anyone know how to show all of the shape groupings, aka Templates, (Business, Engineering, Flowchart, General....) in the Shapes toolbar that is on the left hand side of the screen? I essentially want to be able to use shapes from various template categories but want to be able to point and click to them rather than having to use the search function. I'd like all the template categories to show up in the shape toolbox. |
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Visio shapes & how to show all in toolbox
On Thu, 20 May 2010 10:35:12 -0700 (PDT), hrricane34 wrote:
Does anyone know how to show all of the shape groupings, aka Templates, (Business, Engineering, Flowchart, General....) in the Shapes toolbar that is on the left hand side of the screen? There is nothing like enough room to show *all* the stencils. Use menu File - Shapes to see them within their categories. |
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Visio shapes & how to show all in toolbox
On Thu, 20 May 2010 10:35:12 -0700 (PDT), hrricane34 wrote:
Does anyone know how to show all of the shape groupings, aka Templates, (Business, Engineering, Flowchart, General....) in the Shapes toolbar that is on the left hand side of the screen? There is nothing like enough room to show *all* the stencils. Use menu File - Shapes to see them within their categories. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electronics/ Electrical for Visio http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electrical/ Electronics Packages for Visio http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electronics-packages/ |
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Visio shapes & how to show all in toolbox
But when it was first installed on my machine, it did display all of
the categories. Previously when I was working a drawing, I started to right-click on the categories and close them to clean up the toolbox thinking that when I restarted they would show up again. But that was not the case. |
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Visio shapes & how to show all in toolbox
On Thu, 20 May 2010 11:01:09 -0700 (PDT), hrricane34 wrote:
But when it was first installed on my machine, it did display all of the categories. Previously when I was working a drawing, I started to right-click on the categories and close them to clean up the toolbox thinking that when I restarted they would show up again. But that was not the case. Tell me what menu you are using. What are you right-clicking on? Nothing I know of closes categories by right-clicking on them. What toolbox? Is this some 3rd-party tool? -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electronics/ Electrical for Visio http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electrical/ Electronics Packages for Visio http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electronics-packages/ |
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Visio shapes & how to show all in toolbox
On May 20, 11:37*am, Paul Herber wrote:
On Thu, 20 May 2010 11:01:09 -0700 (PDT), hrricane34 wrote: But when it was first installed on my machine, it did display all of the categories. *Previously when I was working a drawing, I started to right-click on the categories and close them to clean up the toolbox thinking that when I restarted they would show up again. *But that was not the case. Tell me what menu you are using. What are you right-clicking on? Nothing I know of closes categories by right-clicking on them. What toolbox? Is this some 3rd-party tool? -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio * * * * *http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electronics/ Electrical for Visio * * * * *http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electrical/ Electronics Packages for Visiohttp://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electronics-packages/ In the shapes toolbar you will see categories (different ones depending on which type of template you chose to open) and if you right-click on the category (ex. Basic shapes) you can close it. But there is no way to add in categories. |
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Visio shapes & how to show all in toolbox
My guess is you are referring to the “Getting Started Screen” when Visio is
first started. When this option is selected it should display all the available categories for your copy of Visio. Under Tools Options View make sure there is a check mark placed next to the “Getting Started Screen”. -- James W. "hrricane34" wrote: On May 20, 11:37 am, Paul Herber wrote: On Thu, 20 May 2010 11:01:09 -0700 (PDT), hrricane34 wrote: But when it was first installed on my machine, it did display all of the categories. Previously when I was working a drawing, I started to right-click on the categories and close them to clean up the toolbox thinking that when I restarted they would show up again. But that was not the case. Tell me what menu you are using. What are you right-clicking on? Nothing I know of closes categories by right-clicking on them. What toolbox? Is this some 3rd-party tool? -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electronics/ Electrical for Visio http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electrical/ Electronics Packages for Visiohttp://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electronics-packages/ In the shapes toolbar you will see categories (different ones depending on which type of template you chose to open) and if you right-click on the category (ex. Basic shapes) you can close it. But there is no way to add in categories. . |
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Visio shapes & how to show all in toolbox
On Thu, 20 May 2010 11:41:35 -0700 (PDT), hrricane34 wrote:
On May 20, 11:37*am, Paul Herber wrote: On Thu, 20 May 2010 11:01:09 -0700 (PDT), hrricane34 wrote: But when it was first installed on my machine, it did display all of the categories. *Previously when I was working a drawing, I started to right-click on the categories and close them to clean up the toolbox thinking that when I restarted they would show up again. *But that was not the case. Tell me what menu you are using. What are you right-clicking on? Nothing I know of closes categories by right-clicking on them. What toolbox? Is this some 3rd-party tool? In the shapes toolbar you will see categories (different ones depending on which type of template you chose to open) and if you right-click on the category (ex. Basic shapes) you can close it. But there is no way to add in categories. Ah, I've suddenly realised what you are talking abou! I though "shapes toolbar?", there is no shapes toolbar. What you mean is the actual stencils themselves! When creating certain drawing types a number of stencils are also opened. I presume you have been closing some of these. You can add any new stencils, use the menu File - Shapes and explore all the extra shapes you can use. If you want to find out what all the stencils were when you created your diagram then just create a brand new one, write down the names of the stencils and go and find them and open them as per the above instructions with the new diagram. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electronics/ Electrical for Visio http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electrical/ Electronics Packages for Visio http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electronics-packages/ |
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