Chapter 4. SmartShape Symbol Reuse
IN THIS CHAPTER
Master Properties
Help
Stencils
Instancing Master Shapes
Inheritance Versus Local Formatting
Templates in Visio
All right—time for a little breather from working within Visio's ShapeSheet environment. I want to take a wee bit of time to discuss the concept of Master SmartShape symbols and what they can give both you as a developer and to your end-users of Visio.
First, let's define exactly what a Master Shape is. A Master Shape is a Visio SmartShape symbol that resides on either a Visio diagram's local stencil (the document stencil), or on a Visio “standalone” Stencil file (a file with an extension of .VSS). The power of a Master Shape is twofold. Firstly, when symbols are dragged from Stencils to ...
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