Floating Stencils
in Visio
When you first load stencils from the
menu or toolbar they are automatically placed in a dedicated stencil pane on the left hand
side of the Visio window. Stencils can be floated anywhere on the desktop by positioning
the mouse cursor on the top bar of the stencil window, right clicking and choosing
"Float" from the popup menu. Locate the mouse cursor in the top bar of the
floating stencil window. You can now click and drag to move the stencil to a convenient
location.Position the mouse cursor over the
window borders. Move the cursor to the window corners. You will notice how the cursor
changes appearance. The arrow cursors that appear indicate the direction that the borders
can be moved by clicking and dragging to resize the stencil window.
The stencil can be re-docked in the dedicated
stencil pane by dragging the floating window to the lefthand side again. The phantom
outline will snap into position when you approach the lefthand side of the drawing window.
Releasing the mouse button at this point will dock the stencil window in it’s default
location.
A floating stencil can be positioned anywhere
on your desktop and resized to suit your personal requirements.
The desktop illustrated is typical of a 1024x768 display.
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