Is there such thing as an eye dropper tool in Visio?

I'd like to take a colour from an existing shape or picture and make it my
default colour for drawing a shape. As far as I know all I can do right now
is go into Photoshop, get the RGB value for the colour, and then manually
specify my new colour in Visio. It would be so great to discover a faster way
to do this!

You can drill down from any of the colour choice controls. They usually
start with a list to select from. If you choose the last entry, More
colours...., you get a colour palette wit the RGB setting.

You can also read the values from the ShapeSheet. If the value is in HSL(),
you can switch to RGB() by changing the display of the shapesheet cells to
value rather than formula.

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John... Visio MVP

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"Meredi" wrote in message
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I'd like to take a colour from an existing shape or picture and make it my
default colour for drawing a shape. As far as I know all I can do right
now
is go into Photoshop, get the RGB value for the colour, and then manually
specify my new colour in Visio. It would be so great to discover a faster
way
to do this!

Thanks John, but I was looking for something a little less manual. I know I
can drill down and choose RGB from the colour palette but I'm looking for a
solution for when I don't know the RGB value in advance.

For instance, often there's a colour that I just want to grab from an image
in my drawing, so I can make a shape match its colour. All the drawing
programs allow this with an eye-dropper tool, but it's sounding from your
note that nothing like this exists in Visio.

Thanks anyway!

"John Marshall, MVP" wrote:

You can drill down from any of the colour choice controls. They usually
start with a list to select from. If you choose the last entry, More
colours...., you get a colour palette wit the RGB setting.

You can also read the values from the ShapeSheet. If the value is in HSL(),
you can switch to RGB() by changing the display of the shapesheet cells to
value rather than formula.

--
John... Visio MVP

Need stencils or ideas? http://www.mvps.org/visio/3rdparty.htm
Need VBA examples? http://www.mvps.org/visio/VBA.htm
Common Visio Questions http://www.mvps.org/visio/common_questions.htm
Visio Wishlist http://www.mvps.org/visio/wish_list.htm

"Meredi" wrote in message
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I'd like to take a colour from an existing shape or picture and make it my
default colour for drawing a shape. As far as I know all I can do right
now
is go into Photoshop, get the RGB value for the colour, and then manually
specify my new colour in Visio. It would be so great to discover a faster
way
to do this!