Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Inside Out

Quickly Formatting Shapes and Diagrams

When you think about what makes up a shape’s format, it helps to understand the following two attributes of a shape (shown in Figure 2-17):

• Its line, which forms the border around 2-D shapes or the line of a 1-D shape. You can change the line weight (its thickness), color, pattern (such as dashed or dotted lines), and line end (such as an arrowhead).

• Its fill, which is the color and pattern of a shape’s interior. Of course, a 1-D shape such as a connector doesn’t have an interior.

Figure 2-17. The square is a 2-D shape formatted with a fill pattern and thick line weight. The lines are 1-D shapes formatted with ...