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How do I bring back the Shapes Window?
When I opened Visio 2003 yesterday, the Shapes window was gone. I have not
used Visio for a couple of months, and last time I did there was nothing wrong with or unusual about the Shapes Window. On the View menu, Shapes Window is selected (checked); it also appears selected on the toolbar. I can toggle the Size & Position, Pan & Zoom, and Custom Properties windows on and off. I've checked to see if there is a reduced icon somewhere in the main window, but there is nothing like the reduced icons shown when the other windows are on Auto Hide. I've searched help, the web, and every command for customization, options, preferences, page setup, etc. in the Vision UI. |
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How do I bring back the Shapes Window?
Sorry Kevin, I've not been able to replicate this problem. Not sure I want
to. Does this happen with all files - previously saved files and new files? If you go to the toolbar and open a stencil or a listed set of shapes, e.g., Blocks, do either of these actions bring up the shapes window? If you do get a shapes window, you might want to go to the FileProperties and make sure the Save workspace is checked, and then do a Save As. That ought to bring up the Shape Window when you open that file. But, if all of these fail, you probably should do a re-install of Visio. Hope this helps. Wapperdude "Kevin O" wrote: When I opened Visio 2003 yesterday, the Shapes window was gone. I have not used Visio for a couple of months, and last time I did there was nothing wrong with or unusual about the Shapes Window. On the View menu, Shapes Window is selected (checked); it also appears selected on the toolbar. I can toggle the Size & Position, Pan & Zoom, and Custom Properties windows on and off. I've checked to see if there is a reduced icon somewhere in the main window, but there is nothing like the reduced icons shown when the other windows are on Auto Hide. I've searched help, the web, and every command for customization, options, preferences, page setup, etc. in the Vision UI. |
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How do I bring back the Shapes Window?
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:43:48 -0700, WapperDude
wrote: Sorry Kevin, I've not been able to replicate this problem. I think the problem is accidentaly moving the shapes window off-screen. I had a look at the registry settings bit I can't find anything specific. However, renaming the Visio section temporarily will cause Visio to create a new section with the shapes window restored to the default docked left position, it tries to go through a re-installation as well but I just did a cancel to that. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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How do I bring back the Shapes Window?
Hi,
Thanks for your replies. I figured out what the problem was. Apparently I'd undocked the Shapes window, and it was floating outside the main Visio app window. I run Visio on my laptop, with multiple monitors both at work and at home. At work I have a dock, so am running Windows on two external monitors. At home, I do not have a dock, so am running it on one external monitor and laptop. Apparently, I last used Visio at work, so when I opened it at home, the Shapes Window was floating on another monitor that wasn't hooked up. This happens all the time with Word, but with Word I'm at least able to right-click the taskbar, click Move, and then bring the Word window back on screen with the arrow keys on the keyboard. My solution was to change my display settings so that my laptop monitor was the only monitor (turned off Extend my desktop to this monitor in Control Panel Display Settings). This forced all windows onto one display. And there was my Shapes Window floating in my Visio window. I docked it inside the Visio window, reset my multiple monitors, and was back in business. -- Kevin Technical Writer "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas A. Edison "Paul Herber" wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:43:48 -0700, WapperDude wrote: Sorry Kevin, I've not been able to replicate this problem. I think the problem is accidentaly moving the shapes window off-screen. I had a look at the registry settings bit I can't find anything specific. However, renaming the Visio section temporarily will cause Visio to create a new section with the shapes window restored to the default docked left position, it tries to go through a re-installation as well but I just did a cancel to that. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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