Shape Pane is Missing in Microsoft Visio?

In this article, we will find out the shape pane if you have opened your Visio document then you will see that your shape pane is invisible then you can follow this article and you will successfully find out the shape pane in Visio.

In the following screenshot, you can see that the is no shape pane on the left-hand side if there is no shape appearing then you can't start your drawings like a flowchart, network diagram, or org chart, and in simple words, you can't do anything Microsoft Visio.

As we know that flowcharts are visually displayed objects like squares, rectangles, triangles, circles, and many more shapes we use in designing our flowcharts.

That is very important to bring shape first then start your drawing in Microsoft Visio. 

The first step is open Microsoft Visio.

As we can see that Microsoft Visio is open and there is no shape pane in Visio.

To bring it on the screen is our main goal in the article. Go to the View tab > Task Pane in the show group we can see the task pane.

When we expand the Task Pane then we will see a few steps related to the Task Pane.

1. Shapes
2. Shape Data
3. Pan & Zoom
4. Size & Position
5. Navigation

The first thing is shapes. If you will select the shape then the shape pane will appear in Visio as you can see in the following result.

As we can see the shape pane is now visible in Visio. In this way, if your shape pane is missing in Visio then you can bring it back to the main interface of the Visio. Without the shape pane, you can't perform anything in Visio.

If you want to hide your shape pane then you can simply go to the View tab > Task Pane in the View group then unselect the shapes then the shape pane will be invisible.