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CREATE YOUR OWN SHAPES AND TEMPLATES
Design your own templates When you design a template, you can specify page settings, create your own styles, include the stencils you want, and so on. After you save a file as a template, you can reuse it as often as you want or share it with colleagues.
2 Open any additional stencils you want to
save with your template by doing either of the following: • On the File menu, point to Shapes, click Open Stencil and then click the custom stencil you want to open.
You might want to create your own templates if your drawings fall into either of these categories:
• On the File menu, point to Shapes, point to the appropriate drawing type, and then click the name of the stencil you want to open.
• They require customized settings such as page size or scale, window size and position, or shape or text styles. • They often use the same shapes in a particular location on the drawing page. For example, if you use the same border for every drawing, you can create a template with the border on a background page. Create and save your own template 1 Do any of the following to start creating
your template: • To open an existing drawing file you want to save as a template, on the File menu, click Open. In the Open dialog box, locate your drawing file, and then click Open.
• To open a Visio template you want to revise and save as a custom template, on the File menu, point to New, point to the appropriate drawing type, and then click the name of the template you want to open.
• To start your template with only a blank drawing page, on the File menu, point to New, and then click New Drawing.
3 Change drawing page settings and styles. To
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change page settings, click Page Setup on the File menu. To add or modify styles, click Define Styles on the Format menu. On the File menu, click Save As. For Save as type, select Template. For File name, type a name for your template. For Save in, open the folder in which you want to save the template. For Save, click the arrow next to Save and verify that Workspace is selected, and then click Save.
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