Experts with Gold status have received one of our highest-level Expert Awards, which recognize experts for their valuable contributions.When you drag a master from a stencil onto the drawing page, Visio creates a copy of the master in the document stencil.
In essence, the document stencil contains the working copy of each master that youve used at least once in a drawing. If you subsequently make changes to the master in the original stencil and drag an instance onto the page, Visio creates a new copy of that master in the document stencil. You end up with shapes on the page that are linked to two different masters even though you started with only one and then edited it. Lotus Notes Visio Stencil Update All InstancesIn direct contrast, if you edit any of the masters in the document stencil you will be offered the option to update all instances derived from that master. To really understand what is going on you need to open the document stencil. But what if you edit a shape instance on the drawing page and then subsequently edit its master Test Three Edit a Shape Instance and its Master. Whats happening here is that the edited instance on the drawing page is still linked to the master in the document stencil, however, when you edit an attribute in a shape you break the link for that specific attribute. Conclusion As are result of the tests above we can see that: 1) Making changes to a master in a stencil does not affect any drawing page shapes that were derived from that master. Making changes to a master in the document stencil gives you the option to apply the changes to all derived shapes. Conclusion 1 is the biggest source of confusion for people who create custom masters its the opposite of the behavior they expect. Conclusion 2 makes sense once you know of the existence of the document stencil. A final note: At the conclusion of Test Two above, you have updated a master in the document stencil along with its instances on the drawing page. You have not updated the master shape in your original custom stencil. If you want the changes youve made to become permanent for all new instances that you drop onto the page, drag the updated master from the document stencil to your custom stencil and delete the original, unchanged master. References 1) About the document stencil: 2) Enabling the Developer Tab in Visio 2010.
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