How do I turn off unwanted (cross functional flowchart) dialogue?

[Toshi Basha]

I've created a new document. I wanted to check what shapes were available, so
tested a few shapes, including Cross Functional flowchart.

I've gone ahead with my diagram within the same document, and (to my
knowledge) not used any of the Cross Functional Flowchart elements.

Now when I open the document I'm presented with an unwanted cross functional
flowchart dialogue, asking what type of flowchart I require [I don't require
any...].

How do I remove this dialogue from my document?

Thanks in advance

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Hi Toshi!

If you've started a document from the Cross Functional Flowchart Template
(i.e. Swimlanes) and you don't have any swimlane shapes on the page, then
this dialog will always pop-up and annoy you until the day you die.

But not to worry, there are some work-arounds:

1. Create a blank drawing based on no template, and copy your shapes over to
this "clean" drawing.
2. Run the followng sub-routine in the VBA editor. Make sure that your
"infected" drawing is the one in the active window:

Sub RemoveCffEvent()
Dim i As Integer
For i = 1 To Visio.ActiveDocument.EventList.Count
If Visio.ActiveDocument.EventList(i).Action = 1 Then
If Visio.ActiveDocument.EventList(i).Target = "CFF" Then
Visio.ActiveDocument.EventList(i).Persistent = False
Exit Sub
End If
End If
Next i
End Sub

Save the document when you're done, and the Cross-functional even will no
longer be saved with the document!

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

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