http://www.boxesandarrows.com/person/942 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:29:58 GMT Comments by Jean-Philippe Cyr <p>Placing artwork<br />Inserting a module from a separate file is a solution that ca be adopt in Visio, but there is better a solution.</p> <p>It is to work with the Document Stencil. Compare to the General Stencils where the shapes/objects place in your document have not direct link with their masters, the objects/shapes placed in the Document Stencil share all their properties. A change made on a shape in the Document Stencil will change all the instances of that shapes in your entire document.</p> <p>Document Stencil Shapes are very useful for navigation. Better than being place in a background, those widgets can be place where ever you want in your document and be change very quickly and easily.</p> <p>The properties (ex: the fill color) of your shape (dragged from the Document Stencil) can be changed in your document without changing the master. That way you can easily highlight the selected link/button of the navigation in a given page/section. If at some point a new level is added up in your navigation (ex: passing from 5 to 6 links), you simply add that new link in the master (of the Document Stencil) changing the instance of your navigation in all the pages wills still keeping the independent highlighted links/buttons.</p> <p>Very useful.</p> http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/know_your_place#content_2935 http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/know_your_place#content_2935 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:29:58 GMT Jean-Philippe Cyr