atw: Re: Visio colour palettes
- From: "Lewington, Warren J (WT)" <warren.lewington.ext@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:17:56 -0400
The Text, Line, and Fill colour buttons in the Formatting toolbar are
part of the MS Office object set, so get loaded from Office rather than
from the Visio object set. You cannot manually create a palette set in
Office as far as I know.
Visio tries to be something for everyone, and features like palettes and
so on get left behind in the means to that end. Real graphics software
package colour palettes have the power to be manipulated as you wish
although the methodology is similarly roundabouts.
Visio however, as you probably know, is much more than just a real
graphics software package. It is amazingly flexible and covers
extraordinary ground. I am still pleasantly surprised by it even nearly
ten years (sheesh) after I first used it...
Creating a template in Visio will work for your needs, although you have
to make sure everyone uses the vst file as the basis for their drawings
and diagrams.
That's always the hard part, and equivalent to herding cats.
Regards,
Warren
-----Original Message-----
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Geoff Purchase
Sent: Monday, 22 June 2009 15:29
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Visio colour palettes
Thanks Warren,
I had thought of this possibility but I didn't want to pollute your
thinking with my own thoughts. Unfortunately it won't work in my
particular corporate environment...
I'm starting to think that what I want to do can't be done (in this
environment).
Geoff
On 22/06/2009, at 3:09 PM, Lewington, Warren J (WT) wrote:
> Tools > Color Palette
> Make your palette changes here.
> Click OK.
>
> Now these palette changes are directly accessible through the "Fill"
> window. You know that I guess. I am not trying to be condescending
> btw.
>
> You can create a Visio template, and create a toolbar for that
> template that links to the "Fill" window and the changes you made to
> the main palette, along with stencils and shapes in the stencil that
> are consistent and borders and whatever. Turn off the standard
> Formatting toolbars - the ones you don't want your users to see and
> you should then be able to achieves something close to what you
> desire...
>
> HTH
> Regards,
> Warren
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Geoff
> Purchase
> Sent: Monday, 22 June 2009 14:50
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: atw: Visio colour palettes
>
> Hi,
>
> One for the Visio(2003 Pro) users out there.
>
> I'm trying to set up a colour palette for other people in the office
> to use so we get closer to a consistent look and feel. My challenge
> is with the Visio color palette. According to the help files and
> everything I read on the web it should be easy - but the instructions
> I can find don't actually work like I expect.
>
> I can create a new palette by going Tools>Color Palette... and
> entering all the relevant RGB values. No problems there.
> I can even copy this new palette to other files. No problems there.
>
> BUT...
>
> I fail at getting the new palette into the Text, Line, or Fill Color
> buttons on the Formatting toolbar. I can right-click on an object and
> choose Format>Fill>Color and the new palette is visble, but most of my
> users aren't going to all that trouble when there is a button staring
> them in the face.
>
> Has anyone managed to get a custom palette into the formatting toolbar
> buttons?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Geoff
>
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