A lot of shapes have double-click to edit text, but it’s not 100%. You can even set it for shapes using the Format > Behavior dialog.

Of course, select-and-type works too, as you’ve discovered. But if you want to edit existing text, this doesn’t work, since it overwrites everything. In that case, I hit F2 to get into text-edit mode. The Text tool does the same thing, but I find F2 to be faster.

Can you describe what happens with the dimensions in Visio 2010?

Junichi Yoda (the creator of these shapes) makes some truly incredible things with Visio. He’s posted many wonderful items in the Visio Guy Forum. Look for posts from JuneTheSecond.

I found the fonts by doing this.

1. Click link in article above.
2. Click “Piping Isometrics / Free Download”
3. There is a table on the page. Look for: “With Slant Fonts for Visio2000 and 2002 and Continuous Numbers”. There is a large zip to download: “Template and 2 stencils(434KB Zip File)”. This contains the isometric fonts.

Cheers,

Chris

Many thanks in advance.

Greeting from Hamburg (Germany),
Marcus

No idea what’s causing this. I think those shapes were created in Visio 3.0, so maybe they’re starting to get weird.

You can edit each face by sub-selecting shapes, however. These shapes are groups and have several sub-shapes inside. When the sub-shapes are selected, they have their outlines turned off, so the user-experience is odd, but it works.

1. Select a Variable Rectangle shape.
2. Click again on one of the faces. All handles disappear, but you’ve sub-selected a shape.
3. Select a new fill color. Just the face that you clicked on changes.
4. Click a blank area of the page, then click the shape again to select the whole group.

Cheers,

Chris

Any idea what would cause this?

Thanks
Mike

Unfortunately, everything is in Japanese