Problem using Visio 5 stencil in Visio 2002

[DarrenAtSmart]

Help..

I have a stencil created in Visio 3 then moved to Visio 5 now in Visio Standard 2002.

However, on going to 2002 the stencil objects take 10's of seconds to drop onto the drawing, it was fine in Visio 5 whats gone wrong.

regards
Darren

 

[HPGuy]

Hi there, nothings wrong exactly, the same thing happens when you load a visio5 stencil into visio2000. The program is simply doing an import/conversion to the visio2000/xp format. Once you have it loaded, just right click on the bar of the stencil, and choose edit. Now your stencil will have a little red asterix on it to say it is 'open for editing' then, simply right click again and 'save'. you will then get a message that says do you want to save this in the 'current format' or as visio5 format. If you choose 'current format', the stencil will be saved as visio2000/xp format, and the delay will never happen again. the problem is that visio5 and older will never be able to read that newly saved file.

 

[DarrenAtSmart]

Sorry but,I did the save in Visio 2002 the stencil is still very slow. Any other ideas please.