From the course: Visio 2019 Essential Training
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Arrange top SmartShapes on a stencil
From the course: Visio 2019 Essential Training
Arrange top SmartShapes on a stencil
- [Instructor] When adding automatically connected smart shapes from other shapes in your diagram, you get a quick look at the top four shapes in your stencil. For example, in our software installation workflow diagram we've been building, SIWorkflow_0202, if you're catching up, when we hover over this process we just added, and see the four arrows and go to the right-hand side and hover over that, you'll notice that the four shapes we see are the same four shapes we see at the top of our stencil. So we can come over here, go to that right arrow and add another decision. Notice how the connectors automatically move around to create space. But what if we wanted another shape to be one of the top four? For example, we're not going to use a subprocess, but we will be using the document shape. It's a simple matter of clicking and dragging these shapes around so that the top four are the ones you want appearing when you hover over these other shapes. So let's go over here to our document…
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