Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Inside Out

Creating and Editing Styles

You can edit existing styles, create your own from scratch, and delete styles you no longer need. Editing existing styles is a quick way to simultaneously format any shapes with that style in your diagram. Defining new styles is useful when you’re building your own templates or can’t find a style in the template you’re using. You can revise, create, and delete styles by choosing Format, Define Styles, as shown in Figure 23-12. (You must be in Developer Mode. Choose Tools, Options, select the Advanced tab, and turn on the Run In Developer Mode check box.)

Figure 23-12. Choose Format, Define Styles to display this dialog box, where you can edit, create, and delete styles. Remember, this is only available if you are ...