Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007

Chapter 6.Building Your Own Stencils, Templates, and Reports

In This Chapter

Handling Stencils

Building Custom Stencils

Creating Custom Icons

Building Custom Templates

Adding Data to Visio Shapes

Adding Shape Data

Creating Custom Shape Data Properties

Creating Reports

Creating Custom Reports

Handling Stencils

You can use an application like Visio “out of the box” forever and get great value. There are thousands of shapes to choose from, and dozens of stencils. In fact, some people will never feel the need to customize Visio at all, and will simply work with what’s already there.

On the other hand, if you persist with Visio, you’ll find that customizing Visio in some ways will save you a great deal of work. Visio includes good facilities for ...