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August 21st, 2008, 03:07 PM
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All shapes drag as rectangles
Visio crashed on me yesterday, corrupting my file & changing many of my
default settings. The IT department reloaded Visio, & I have been able to reset most of my settings, but cannot figure out how to get my shapes to appear as the appropriate shape as I am dragging it from a stencil to the flowchart. For example, when I drag a File shape from a stencil to a flowchart, as I am dragging it, it appears as a square. It does not appear as a triangle until I release the shape onto the flowchart. This is happening with ALL shapes (from personal stencils & Visio canned shapes). Thanks. Anita 
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August 21st, 2008, 11:32 PM
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Anita, do you remember what you were doing when it crashed? What operating
system are you using and what version of Visio is on the computer? What do you mean by reloading Visio, are you restoring the computer to a previous restore point or was Visio re-installed? By default the shape being dragged from the stencil should displayed icon for the master. What customizations have you performed for Visio’s settings? James W. "Anita" wrote: Visio crashed on me yesterday, corrupting my file & changing many of my default settings. The IT department reloaded Visio, & I have been able to reset most of my settings, but cannot figure out how to get my shapes to appear as the appropriate shape as I am dragging it from a stencil to the flowchart. For example, when I drag a File shape from a stencil to a flowchart, as I am dragging it, it appears as a square. It does not appear as a triangle until I release the shape onto the flowchart. This is happening with ALL shapes (from personal stencils & Visio canned shapes). Thanks. Anita
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August 21st, 2008, 11:55 PM
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This has been reported here quite a few times, I can't help but feel
that it's caused by something outside of the normal control of Visio, some other setting that gets changed. On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:32:12 -0700, James W. wrote: Anita, do you remember what you were doing when it crashed? What operating system are you using and what version of Visio is on the computer? What do you mean by reloading Visio, are you restoring the computer to a previous restore point or was Visio re-installed? By default the shape being dragged from the stencil should displayed icon for the master. What customizations have you performed for Visio’s settings? James W. "Anita" wrote: Visio crashed on me yesterday, corrupting my file & changing many of my default settings. The IT department reloaded Visio, & I have been able to reset most of my settings, but cannot figure out how to get my shapes to appear as the appropriate shape as I am dragging it from a stencil to the flowchart. For example, when I drag a File shape from a stencil to a flowchart, as I am dragging it, it appears as a square. It does not appear as a triangle until I release the shape onto the flowchart. This is happening with ALL shapes (from personal stencils & Visio canned shapes). Thanks. Anita -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/
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August 23rd, 2008, 01:46 PM
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All shapes drag as rectangles
Anita,
haven't access to your original post, so i'm replying to Paul: Check this registry setting assuming you're using Visio2007): HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\V isio\Application\DragImage It should be set to "2" or at least to "3" Hope that helps Dieter Paul Herber schrieb: This has been reported here quite a few times, I can't help but feel that it's caused by something outside of the normal control of Visio, some other setting that gets changed. On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:32:12 -0700, James W. wrote: Anita, do you remember what you were doing when it crashed? What operating system are you using and what version of Visio is on the computer? What do you mean by reloading Visio, are you restoring the computer to a previous restore point or was Visio re-installed? By default the shape being dragged from the stencil should displayed icon for the master. What customizations have you performed for Visio’s settings? James W. "Anita" wrote: Visio crashed on me yesterday, corrupting my file & changing many of my default settings. The IT department reloaded Visio, & I have been able to reset most of my settings, but cannot figure out how to get my shapes to appear as the appropriate shape as I am dragging it from a stencil to the flowchart. For example, when I drag a File shape from a stencil to a flowchart, as I am dragging it, it appears as a square. It does not appear as a triangle until I release the shape onto the flowchart. This is happening with ALL shapes (from personal stencils & Visio canned shapes). Thanks. Anita
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August 25th, 2008, 05:58 PM
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Dieter:
Thank you very much for your response. I am using Visio 2003 at work, so I do not have access to the registry. The IT department cannot locate the "Application" folder within the registry. They were able to locate ...\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Visio\ but no "Application" folder follows. Any suggestions? Thanks. Anita
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August 25th, 2008, 07:49 PM
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:58:09 -0700, Anita
wrote: Dieter: Thank you very much for your response. I am using Visio 2003 at work, so I do not have access to the registry. The IT department cannot locate the "Application" folder within the registry. They were able to locate ...\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Visio\ but no "Application" folder follows. Any suggestions? Find out from them which folders do exist. Are you using a non-English version of Visio? I've just renamed the Application folder, upon restarting Visio it get recreated. If the IT dept can't find it then I would suspect the capabilities of the IT dept. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/
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March 26th, 2009, 12:45 PM
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On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:00:03 GMT, (James
Wittrell) wrote: Make sure your IT department has set Visio to write settings to the registry. Tools Options Advanced Put all settings in Windows registry. Aren't the paths always put in the registry regardless of that setting? -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/
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April 1st, 2009, 10:55 PM
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All shapes drag as rectangles
Actually if this setting is not checked some registry keys will not be
present, however in this case even with the box checked that registry key is not there at least on my test box anyway. James W -------------------- From: Paul Herber Newsgroups: microsoft.public.visio.general Subject: All shapes drag as rectangles Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:45:46 +0000 Organization: Sandrila Ltd Reply-To: Message-ID: . net References: . net . net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 14 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.175.153.213 X-Trace: 1238071548 news.gradwell.net 510 PHSL/80.175.153.213:50038 X-Complaints-To: Path: TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl!TK2MSF TFEEDS02.phx.gbl!newsfeed0 0.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news-peer-lilac .gradwell.net!not-for-mail Xref: TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl microsoft.public.visio.general:11999 X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.visio.general On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:00:03 GMT, (James Wittrell) wrote: Make sure your IT department has set Visio to write settings to the registry. Tools Options Advanced Put all settings in Windows registry. Aren't the paths always put in the registry regardless of that setting? -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/
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