Re: could not edit stencil

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Do you mean the Shapes themselves or actually adding masters (icons) to the
green things (stencils)?

The UML shapes probably have lots of protection to make it difficult for
users to change them. That is because the special UML code that makes the
UML solution work needs the shapes to have certain properties. If a user
alters these shapes, then it could break the UML solution.

You might try selecting a shape and looking at Format > Protection. Also,
there's a Shape*** section called "Protection". Go to Window > Show
Shape*** to view this.

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

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"Jack Zhong" <noemail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Chris Roth [MVP] expressed precisely :

I think that the stencils that ship with Visio 2003 are set to
"read-only" in a special way. They are somehow registered with Visio so
that Visio won't let you edit them.

I am afraid not. These stencils are all built-in ones, and they could be
edited the day before yesterday. Those shape*** I created with the same
Visio application in the same computer are not editable either.




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