Visio2003: creating a fillable shape from lines?

Howdy,
a simple question: how do I combine lines to form, say, a triangle that can
later be filled with a color? I mean - what operations to use? Using Group
and then Fill gives no result, likewise Shape::Operations::Combine, Union,
.... do not work for this. But I believe there must be a way as simple as two
or three clicks ....

You gave up too soon. Assuming that the line ends match up, then, just
select all of the lines (cntl A works nicely if there's nothing else on the
page), and then go to the menu bar shapes operations and chose "join".
Shape should take fill color / patterns.

HTH
Wapperdude



"Mac" wrote:

Howdy,
a simple question: how do I combine lines to form, say, a triangle that can
later be filled with a color? I mean - what operations to use? Using Group
and then Fill gives no result, likewise Shape::Operations::Combine, Union,
... do not work for this. But I believe there must be a way as simple as two
or three clicks ....

Thanks WD,

you're right I 'd given up too soon, there were four more to go ....:-D

"WapperDude" wrote:

You gave up too soon. Assuming that the line ends match up, then, just
select all of the lines (cntl A works nicely if there's nothing else on the
page), and then go to the menu bar shapes operations and chose "join".
Shape should take fill color / patterns.

HTH
Wapperdude



"Mac" wrote:

Howdy,
a simple question: how do I combine lines to form, say, a triangle that can
later be filled with a color? I mean - what operations to use? Using Group
and then Fill gives no result, likewise Shape::Operations::Combine, Union,
... do not work for this. But I believe there must be a way as simple as two
or three clicks ....