Sharing custom templates

We have now learned how to enhance the existing master shapes in Visio to add extra functionality and accessibility. Of course, we need to apply these enhancements to all of the master shapes in Document Stencil, which we can then hide and leave the Basic Flowchart Shapes and Cross-Functional Flowchart Shapes stencils visible and docked. We can then save our custom Visio document as a template, and give it to others to add to their Custom Office Templates folder, for example. They can then create new Visio diagrams from this template and will have all the enhanced features. These features, apart from the Configure Callout dialog, will also work in Visio for the web because they are just ShapeSheet functions.

Alternatively, the custom template can be added as a content type in SharePoint, which is beyond the scope of this book, or it can be added to the list of templates in Teams and SharePoint as described in Chapter 8.

However, in desktop Visio, we can...