Making fill patterns available

[dtallent]

I am wondering if anyone knows how to make a custom fill pattern available to many different plans. I know how to save it in Drawing Explorer for each plan, but I am wondering is there a way to make each pattern available for all of my plans. I create fill patterns for grass, carpet, different flooring, sand, trees and a bunch of others. I now it doesn't take much to put them in Drawing explorer, I am just curious if there is an easier way.

[Surrogate]

You can save your patterns in stencil. When you open this stencil with your document, in this document you can apply your pattern from stencil

Video: Visio. How make custom fill pattern availible for many documents?

[vojo]

any new doc
- open doc
- add the "fill pattern" stencil
    - open stencil
    - go to location
    - select and enter


Also can add to a template so that when you open a new doc, its already there