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Title: Rearrange Visio Shapes in a Document Stencil
Post by: Bobkat on January 04, 2011, 05:30:01 AM
I have a document stencil that has a lot of visio shapes that I have used on my 30 odd pages of computer rack diagrams. The age of the servers and switches used in the racks are quite old and new so none are easily found without a lot of searching.
I notice that there is a DOCUMENT Stencil created with each visio drawing.
Is it possible to sort the visio shapes in the document stencil alphabetically or any other way
???
Title: Re: Rearrange Visio Shapes in a Document Stencil
Post by: Paul Herber on January 21, 2011, 09:35:44 AM
The shapes can be rearranged manually by dragging them into the order you want.
Title: Re: Rearrange Visio Shapes in a Document Stencil
Post by: goltoof on April 13, 2011, 10:08:10 PM
Quote from: Paul Herber on January 21, 2011, 09:35:44 AM
The shapes can be rearranged manually by dragging them into the order you want.

So there's no way to order the shapes in a stencil alphabetically without having to manually sort them?
Title: Re: Rearrange Visio Shapes in a Document Stencil
Post by: wapperdude on April 13, 2011, 10:29:11 PM
No Visio built-in feature that I'm aware of. 

Wapperdude
Title: Re: Rearrange Visio Shapes in a Document Stencil
Post by: cliff50 on April 13, 2011, 10:54:30 PM
does "shape -> send to back"  or "shape-> bring to front"  order them in a way that you want ?
Title: Re: Rearrange Visio Shapes in a Document Stencil
Post by: goltoof on April 13, 2011, 11:15:13 PM
Quote from: cliff50 on April 13, 2011, 10:54:30 PM
does "shape -> send to back"  or "shape-> bring to front"  order them in a way that you want ?

No, I'm referring to the order of the shapes within the stencil itself, not the drawing.