Shape Colors That Are Set in the ShapeSheet Are Displayed as Black (828968)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003
  • Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2003

SYMPTOMS

When you open a drawing in Microsoft Office Visio 2003, shapes that contain custom ShapeSheet formulas to specify fill color may be displayed with black as the fill color.

CAUSE

This problem may occur when all the following conditions are true:
  • The drawing was created in Microsoft Visio 2002 and was saved in the default Visio drawing (.vsd) format.
  • The number of colors in the drawing exceeds 228.
  • The drawing is opened in Visio 2003.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, follow these steps:
  1. Open the drawing in Visio 2003.
  2. On the File menu, click Save As.
  3. In the Save As dialog box, click XML Drawing (*.vdx) as the type of file to save, and then click Save.
  4. On the File menu, click Close to close the drawing.
  5. Reopen the .vdx file that you created in step 3.

    On the File menu, click Open, click the .vdx drawing, and then click Open. The shape colors from the ShapeSheet are now displayed correctly in the drawing.
  6. On the File menu, click Save As, click Drawing (*.vsd) as the type of file to save, and then click Save.
Notice that the colors are displayed correctly.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section of this article.

REFERENCES

For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

321117 Visio2002: Text Colors Set in the ShapeSheet Are Displayed As Black

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:1/12/2006
Keywords:kbpending kbprb KB828968 kbAudEndUser
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