Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Step by Step

Chapter 10. Creating Shapes, Stencils, and Templates

In this chapter you will learn to:

• Drawing Shapes from Scratch

• Grouping and Merging Shapes

• Modifying Shapes

• Saving Shapes on Stencils

• Creating Templates

Even though Visio includes tens of thousands of shapes, there might come a time when you need to create your own custom shapes. Perhaps you want to show special equipment or custom furniture in an office layout. Maybe you want to highlight your company's line of products in a client diagram. In any of these situations, you could create custom shapes to use in your diagrams.

With the drawing tools in Microsoft Office Visio, you can draw a shape from scratch or modify a shape that looks similar to the shape you want to create. If you want to use the ...