Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Inside Out

Chapter 23. Defining Styles, Patterns, and Colors

Understanding Text, Line, and Fill Styles

Creating and Editing Styles

Setting Default Styles for Drawing

Creating Your Own Line and Fill Patterns

Working with Color in Visio

If you open a Microsoft Office Visio 2003 template and drag Visio master shapes onto a page to create a diagram, you typically don’t need to think much about styles, patterns, or colors. Most everything is formatted for you—styles are already included in the template, and an instant color scheme is only a click away. If you’re not content with the options Visio provides, however, you have a lot of leeway to customize, as this chapter describes.

When you want to change the way a shape looks, you probably click a formatting button. ...