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How to disable some shapes from being selected to make shape.COMMENTS. Visio 2013

I have a variety of rectangular shapes and containers, dropped by automation from stencils.
How do I prevent specific shapes being selected - so shape.COMMENTS can only be made to a pre-ordained sub-set of shapes?

The following disables the creation of a specific shp.Comment:
shp.CellsSRC(visSectionObject, visRowLock, visLockSelect).FormulaU = "1"
but, consequently, when shp is clicked (and not selected) a comment text box is raised to the document.comment.

Preferably by automation, is there a way of disabling the creation of document.comment?

Thanks
Kelvin

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Scott Helmers

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Roger

ASKER

Thanks, Scott.
I is very helpful to know there is no standard way.
I will investigate further, and let you know how I get on.
Kelvin

Roger

ASKER

Scott,
I now have a solution for controlling whether Visio Review Comments can be written:
- For the page,
- For a shape by selecting that shape followed by 'AddComment'
- For a shape by clicking the blue 'Comments' bubble that appears when a comment has been initated on either page or shape.

I dont see anything on this in the EE Article collection
Should I send it to you, or (??) submit it as an article?
Kelvin

Scott Helmers

By all means, submit it as an article -- I'd love to see what you've come up with. If you'd like me to offer my 2 cents worth, feel free to send a draft to the email address in my EE profile. However, this is NOT necessary; the team of EE page editors will help you get the copy into publishable form. They have written a guide to article writing that you may find helpful.

It will be nice to have an article in the Visio section by someone other than me!

Roger

ASKER

Thanks!