Visio provides numerous shapes grouped into stencils several of which are made available when installing Visio. Advanced users may find it necessary to create custom shapes that could be reused in several diagrams.

In This Chapter:

Creating and Formatting new shapes

Here we go over creating and formatting new shapes.

Stacking and Grouping Shapes

Often when creating custom shapes or working with composite shapes, there may be a need to arrange the constituent shapes with respect to each other to get a desired stacking order. here we show you how to do that.

Creating Templates

Visio templates can provide the ability to jump-start a new drawing by providing the drawing environment most suitable for a specific purpose. Such as an organization can publish to its users a template containing a specific backgroun