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Published inMay 2016
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ISBN-139781785882661
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David J Parker's background has been in data visualization ever since he struggled to produce lists of hospital equipment from Computer Aided Design models of buildings as a budding architect in the '80s. He moved into building and infrastructure asset management in the late '80s using a Unix system and gradually migrated to Windows-based systems throughout the '90s. He became a European Business partner of Visio Corporation in 1996 and presented the database-linked Visio solutions that he was providing merchant banks in London and New York with at several international conferences. David started bVisual Ltd. in 1998, which provides Visio-based solutions to various industries, and became a Silver-level Microsoft partner. He has been a Microsoft MVP (Visio) for the last 12 years and has helped Microsoft Corp, UK and Western Europe, by providing Visio solutions, training, website content, and presentations. David has had several books on Visio published and has been presenting Visio/SharePoint integration courses for many years for Microsoft Western Europe, from Oslo in the North down to Lisbon in the South. He has presented at SQL and SharePoint Saturday conferences and writes a regular blog for people interested in Microsoft Visio.
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Sharing custom stencils

A stencil is a Visio document with a VSSX or VSSM extension and contains a number of Masters. The easiest method of sharing custom Masters is to add them to a custom stencil and simply distribute the file. The file can then be added to the My Shapes folder that is created by the Visio installation.

The location of the My Shapes folder can be viewed, and changed, by opening the File Locations dialog from File | Options Advanced, as shown in the following screenshot:

There can be only one My Shapes folder, but all of the other file locations can have multiple folders if the paths are separated by semicolons.

Visio will enumerate all subfolders within a specified folder, so a category and subcategory can be created with folder names. For example, the following screenshot of File Explorer shows that there are many stencils within a folder named Metro Icons inside the My Shapes folder:

When viewed with Visio, the stencils appear under the Metro Icons category of Shapes | Stencils...

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David J Parker's background has been in data visualization ever since he struggled to produce lists of hospital equipment from Computer Aided Design models of buildings as a budding architect in the '80s. He moved into building and infrastructure asset management in the late '80s using a Unix system and gradually migrated to Windows-based systems throughout the '90s. He became a European Business partner of Visio Corporation in 1996 and presented the database-linked Visio solutions that he was providing merchant banks in London and New York with at several international conferences. David started bVisual Ltd. in 1998, which provides Visio-based solutions to various industries, and became a Silver-level Microsoft partner. He has been a Microsoft MVP (Visio) for the last 12 years and has helped Microsoft Corp, UK and Western Europe, by providing Visio solutions, training, website content, and presentations. David has had several books on Visio published and has been presenting Visio/SharePoint integration courses for many years for Microsoft Western Europe, from Oslo in the North down to Lisbon in the South. He has presented at SQL and SharePoint Saturday conferences and writes a regular blog for people interested in Microsoft Visio.
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