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Visio not applying colors

Hello,
I am using Visio 2007.

I open the program, I go to file -> new

I go to file -> Shapes -> General -> Basic Shapes

I drag and drop a Rectangle to the drawing, it is white with black borders.

I click on it and then I go to "fill color" and I choose a Red. The rectangle is still White.

The rectangle is still selected (or I re-select it), I double click on it and I put some text... I try to change the text color, but it's still black, and white background.

I click on Theme and choose a full colored theme -> nothing changed...

Am I doing something wrong? Or there is something to do before changing the colors?
Thank you

Scott Helmers

The only thing I can think of is that the shape might be protected. It doesn't make sense that a generic shape in the "Basic Shapes" stencil would be protected, but it's worth checking.

To find out, right click on the shape and select Format>Protection. If either "Format" or "From Theme Colors" is checked, uncheck them and try manually changing colors/themes again.

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ASKER

Hi.... please check the recording that I have made... http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GTD6RZQL

I really cannot understand why I cannot color them :(

Please help

Scott Helmers

Very strange... let's see whether it's the drawing or some setting on your PC. Please drop a couple of shapes on the page and save the drawing, then post it here. I'll open it on my machine to see whether the behavior is the same as what you see or what I see.

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ASKER

Here it is, the same one I used on the video.
Drawing3.vsd

Scott Helmers

Here's what I see when I open your drawing:

Drawing3.jpg

Scott Helmers

Clearly the colors have been applied, but they aren't visible on your system.

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ASKER

:( What can I do? Is there any option to show the colors applied?

Scott Helmers

I am a bit puzzled because there's no "black and white only" setting as there is in PowerPoint. Have you installed any add-ins to Visio? For example, what is the third toolbar in the video you sent? The upper two are standard Visio toolbars but I don't recognize the short, third toolbar.

Also related to add-ins, select Tools>Trust Center then click Add-ins and post a screen shot of the resulting dialog.

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ASKER

The short tool bar is called Format Shape and it has been enabled on the View -> Toolbars menu, when I was trying to find alone a solution to this problem, but it didn't help.

I installed Visio 2007 few hours ago, following the 1 click standard installation, I didn't edit anything. It's running on Win XP.
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ASKER

I am going to try, I'll let you know