Legend weird behaviour

[bogdan]

Hi,

I have to modify a diagram that I created few months ago. The diagram has a
legend shape with 11 symbols. When I copy and paste one of the shapes in
the diagram (i.e. a cloud) the legend shape shrinks vertically by cutting
off the bottom symbol and then attaches a symbol of just pasted shape. I
use 'attach' in this case because this is the only way I can describe what
I see. The newly pasted shape's symbol appears outside of the legend but it
seems to be attached to it (i.e. goes with the legend if I drag it). The
new symbol does not appear on the symbols list in "Configure Legend" so I
can't get rid of it. As a result I end up with a legend missing its 11th
symbol and having an unwanted symbol attached to it.

Could someone please give me any hint on how to troubleshoot this?

Thanks,
Bogdan

 

[Philippe C.]

I don't know if the answer is in it :
http://www.visguy.com/2006/11/20/legend-shapes/

 

[bob]

Philippe,

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the link does not help.

Bogdan

 

[WapperDude]

Bob --
You may have to consider a possible corruption with your drawing. I tried
to break the legend: added nearly 30 different shapes to a drawing, some
shapes repeated many times, most were Visio pre-defined, from various
stencils, some were custom. The some predefined did not include the legend
behavior, but placing them over the legend shape worked normally.
Duplicating those symbols properly incremented the placement count. The
custom symbol I created was added to a new stencil, and then dragged to the
drawing. The legend "captured" the symbol normally.

Some things you might try:
1.) delete the legend and bring a new instance over. Does it capture all
of the symbols?

2.) do a save as of your drawing, new name. Close out the original, and
open the new version. Does that restore proper behavior? You may still have
to delete and place a new copy of the legend. You may want to delete the
legend before you do a save as.

3.) open a new drawing, try placing a bunch of symbols plus legend. Does
that work properly?

If the answer is no to all of these, there may be some basic corruption with
Visio and a re-install might be necessary. But, that's just a "guess" on my
part.

Hope this helps.
Wapperdude