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Location of stencils
Under the 'File' menu is an entry called 'Shapes'. This entry expands to a
structured presentation of all the stencils catagorized and sorted. Where are these stencils located, and how do I add more from an earlier version? Thanks, JP. |
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Location of stencils
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:57:06 -0800, JasonPoole
wrote: Under the 'File' menu is an entry called 'Shapes'. This entry expands to a structured presentation of all the stencils catagorized and sorted. Where are these stencils located, and how do I add more from an earlier version? There should be a folder called My Shapes in your My Documents, put your stencils in here, creating a folder here will create a new category of that name. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. SSADM for Visio http://www.saadm.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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Location of stencils
There should be a folder called My Shapes in your My Documents
Understood. But as the system admin, I need to put these where everyone will find them. They have to exist somewhere on the system already. I just need to know where Visio is finding these files now. Do I have to do a search over the entire network for the stencil files, or is there a place to look ( menus, registry, etc. ) for the folder that Visio automatically searches for these files? |
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Location of stencils
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:51:01 -0800, JasonPoole
wrote: There should be a folder called My Shapes in your My Documents Understood. But as the system admin, I need to put these where everyone will find them. They have to exist somewhere on the system already. I just need to know where Visio is finding these files now. Do I have to do a search over the entire network for the stencil files, or is there a place to look ( menus, registry, etc. ) for the folder that Visio automatically searches for these files? Visio keeps its own stencils in a folder and has its own method of managing and arranging them, we can't change or add to that. It then adds any stencils in My Documents/My Shapes the next option is to use the stencils file paths menu Tools - Options - Advanced - File Paths and set the Stencils path with a ';' separator between multiple paths. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd http://www.electronic-chip-packages.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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Location of stencils
Visio keeps its own stencils in a folder and has its own method of managing and arranging them, we can't change or add to that. the next option is to use the stencils file paths menu Tools - Options - Advanced - File Paths and set the Stencils path with a ';' separator between multiple paths. Thanks Paul. Will work with the second option. I noticed in the registry that there seems to be a structure with coded strings. I assumed that the application is aware of the structure, and the classid's. Didn't figure I could do anything about that in terms of adding anything to it manually. If the application doesn't have an import function, then the 'File Paths' is the answer. Thanks for the assist. JP. |
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Location of stencils
This article explains two methods for exposing content:
http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/...08/691363.aspx -- Mark Nelson Office Graphics - Visio Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "JasonPoole" wrote in message ... Visio keeps its own stencils in a folder and has its own method of managing and arranging them, we can't change or add to that. the next option is to use the stencils file paths menu Tools - Options - Advanced - File Paths and set the Stencils path with a ';' separator between multiple paths. Thanks Paul. Will work with the second option. I noticed in the registry that there seems to be a structure with coded strings. I assumed that the application is aware of the structure, and the classid's. Didn't figure I could do anything about that in terms of adding anything to it manually. If the application doesn't have an import function, then the 'File Paths' is the answer. Thanks for the assist. JP. |
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