Sort shapes in a stencil (Visio 2002-Any version is fine as well)

[Biju Mathew]

Hi all ,
Is there any way to sort the shapes in a stencil based on its name. Or if it
can be sorted aat all on any property please let me know . Thanks in
advance.

Biju

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

If you have the stencil open for edit, you can manually reorder the shape
masters by dragging them. There is no property to sort by.

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

The other option is to write some VBA code to read the names of the shape
from one stencil, sort the list and then drop the shapes to a new stencil in
sorted order.

John... Visio MVP

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