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Saving Shapes on Stencils

Once in a while you might create a custom shape that you'll use only once. However, more often than not, you'll want to use your custom shapes again and again. Just as you can drag a shape from a stencil onto the drawing page to create a diagram, you can drag a custom shape from the drawing page onto a custom stencil to store it there. For example, if you customized a Visio title shape for your company's logo, you could drag it onto a custom stencil or the Favorites stencil so you could easily access it while creating any diagram. Likewise, if you use the same shapes from several different stencils over and over and you'd like to consolidate them onto a single stencil, you can add those shapes to a custom stencil or the ...