Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Inside Out

Chapter 23. Defining Styles, Patterns, and Colors

Understanding Text, Line, and Fill Styles	739
Using Themes	743
Creating and Editing Styles	752
Setting Default Styles for Drawing	756
Creating Your Own Line and Fill Patterns	757
Working with Color in Visio 2007	773

If you open a Microsoft Office Visio 2007 template and drag Office Visio 2007 master shapes onto a page to create a diagram, you typically don’t need to think much about styles, patterns, colors, or themes. Almost everything is formatted for you—styles are already included in the template, and using the new themes in Visio 2007, an instant theme is only a click away. If you’re not content with the options Visio 2007 provides, however, you have a lot of leeway to customize, as this chapter describes. ...