invisible sheet.140

Started by mmulvenna, January 31, 2009, 01:30:20 AM

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mmulvenna

I have a viso document that I e-mailed to a client. My group contains the following sheets
Sheet.20 is the group
sheets.21 thru 27 are the sheets in the group.
Sheet.28 is a text box with a hyperlink.

When the user opens the file I sent him containing the above, there is an invisible sheet.140. It does not show on the visio page nor does it appear in the drawing explorer window.

Any ideas? ???


wapperdude

So, by what means do you detect this shape?  Document stencil???

Is it possible that it's a shape you renamed?
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Paul Herber

#2
Would you care to try out my
http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-utilities/
and use the menu SuperUtils -> Page -> Shapes on Page Report
That might tell you more about the shape. If the shape is there then delete every other shape in turn unril only this one shape is left. The you can do a  Select All (Control-A) and look at the shapesheet or change the formatting to make it visible. That might tell you where it is and why it's invisible.


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mmulvenna

#3
Quote from: wapperdude on January 31, 2009, 02:32:35 AM
So, by what means do you detect this shape?  Document stencil???

Is it possible that it's a shape you renamed?

I did a debug.print sheet.id in the vba code and discovered it. I did this becuase i goy an exception error in my code and new it was caused by a sheet i was not handling.

mmulvenna

#4
Quote from: Paul Herber on January 31, 2009, 10:43:15 AM
Would you care to try out my
http://www.visio-utilities.sandrila.co.uk/
and use the menu SuperUtils -> Page -> Shapes on Page Report
That might tell you more about the shape. If the shape is there then delete every other shape in turn unril only this one shape is left. The you can do a  Select All (Control-A) and look at the shapesheet or change the formatting to make it visible. That might tell you where it is and why it's invisible.



Thanks, i will have to wait until Monday when my client returns to work. He skated out on me yesterday. I will give it a try.

aledlund

Don't know if this applies, but. I just went through the chasing of 'invisible' shapes. It appears to happen when you add a grouped shape to a layer. The original shape shows up, as well as the component shapes of the group. In my case I would add a component shape to a layer and the original (with it's twelve parts) would show up. So I had 13 shapes on the layer for each single one I added.
al
(v2007 with sp2 applied)

mmulvenna

I resent him the same file and it worked just fine this time. I asked him to save the original fiel so I could review it but alas he did not save it. Guess i will never know what happened  thanks for all the comments.