How to customize shapes window in Microsoft Visio?

In this article, we will customize our shapes window in Visio? As we know that shapes are mostly used to design flowcharts, org charts, network diagrams, floor plans, and many more in Visio. We use shapes for the representation of the data in Visio.

That is why shapes are very important while working with Visio. As, we know that charts, org. chart, floor plans are designed with the help of basic shapes that is why we say that we will customize the shapes pan in Microsoft Visio.

As we can see that we have used a lot of shapes in our flowchart.

when we open our Visio drawing then can see only the blank page in our Visio drawing.

When we open Microsoft Visio then by default the shapes pane exists on the left side of the Visio.

Sometimes when we open ms Visio then we can see that our shapes pane does not come while with the ms Visio. 

As we can see in the following screenshot.

As we can see the shape pane is not available on our Visio home page.

Now, we will talk about how we can show the shape pane in the Visio document so that we can use a shape from the shape pane to our drawing. Because it's very easy to drag and drop shapes from the shape pane to our Visio drawing.

If we want our shapes pane should appear on the home page then we can follow up the following steps so that we can see our shape pane on the home screen.

In the View tab > Show Group > Task Pane.

Expand the "Task Panes" Then we will see one of the "Shapes".

 

When we will click on the shapes in the Task panes then our shapes window will appear on the home screen.

As we can see now.

If we want to see basic shapes in our shapes window then we can simply click on the "search bar" in the in shapes window. Finally, basic shapes will appear or we can go with More shapes then we can see many types of shapes.

After selecting the Basic Flowchart Shapes we can see the following shapes in the shapes window.

If we want more space for work in our Visio drawing then we can minimize the shape window with the help of the arrow key on the top of the shapes window. As you can see the arrow in the following screenshot.

When we will click on this arrow then we can see that what happens with our shapes window.

As we can see that our shape window is minimized. As you can see in the above screenshot. Also, if you want to expand the shape window then you can click on that arrow then your window will be expanded.

There is one more thing about the shape window. If someone is uncomfortable while the window is on the left side then he could shift the window from left to right and right to left.

In the View tab > Direction. Then we can see the two options.

1. Left-to-Right
2. Right-to-Left

At this time, our window is from Left-to-Right. if we want our window will be from Right-to-Left then it will turn.

In this way, we can customize our shape window in Microsoft Visio. As we know that shapes window is very important while working with Visio drawing.