Today I had some conceptual work to do and as this always involves some fancy Visio diagrams, I ran into a problem which might also could happen to you.
Microsoft has released great Windows Server 2012 / Office 365 stencils for Visio 2013. You can find them here. As soon you start Visio and import the the stencils and drag your first shape onto your drawing you will see something like this…
As you can see the shapes are just bluish single-colored. Not what I really want, though. After some time a fellow from my company came up with the solution.
Go to DESIGN and click on the little arrow in the right corner…
…now the menu expands and you need to select the white squares “No theme” and also deselect the “Apply Theme to New Shapes”…
Now you can drag and drop the shapes in the color as you would expect…
The strange thing is, that I haven’t encountered this problem with any other stencils so far.
I hope it saves you some time…
Mille grazie !
You have made my day
Thanks, just had the same problem which this fixed.
Worked like a charm.
Thank you! this was a great help!
Thank you, this is great help!
Perfect! Saved me from a major headache, thank you!
Thank you do much!
Thanks so much , i was really stcuk
Great! But how to save this setting as the “default theme” so I don’t need to do these steps EVERY time I reopen a file?
Thank you, this is great help!!!
nice visual how to!
Many thanks and great visualization how to handle with the impact themes have!