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Manipulating stencils using Visio 2007
Each time you create a drawing based on a template, only the stencils associated with the template are shown. You can open new stencils by choosing them from the file, shapes submenu. If you wish to close it, you can right-click its total bar and choose close. By default, open stencils are grouped together in the shape window, and only one set of shapes is visible at a time. To switch stencils you will need to click the title bar of the one that you wish to view. It is also possible to manipulate stencils by using the same techniques you use to manipulate windows.
To begin with, observe the shapes window, notice that two stencils are open: basic flowchart shapes and network and peripherals. Click the title bar of the Network and peripherals and the title bar for basic flowchart shapes drops to the bottom of the window. The shapes in network and peripherals are then visible again.
At the bottom of the window, click the title bar of the basic flowchart shapes. This will allow you to open and close stencils as you need them. Now choose file, shapes, business and then brainstorming. From the submenu, choose brainstorming shapes. The three stencils are grouped in the shapes window. You can float and/or anchor the entire window, or float or anchor the stencils individually. First, float the shapes window.
Double click the title bar of the shapes window. This will change it to a small window that you can move around the screen and resize. Now press control and drag the window to the center of the drawing area. Pressing control prevents the window from docking to other parts of the work area.
Now double click the title bar again. Drag the title bar of the brainstorming shapes to the right, toward the center of the drawing area. As you do so, the stencils should break away from the shapes window and become a small floating window. Slowly drag the floating stencil window to the left until it snaps to the left edge of the drawing area. Now drag the bottom-right corner of the window down and to the right.
In the lower-left corner of the window, click the small icon that looks a bit like a fat pencil. This will turn off the auto hide button. Now point away from the anchored window and point to the brainstorming shapes title bar to expand the window. Finally, using the title bar, drag the brainstorming shapes stencil back to the shapes window so that the stencil is docked again with the other two stencils.
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