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We are in the middle of incorporating a custom stencil into a Visio diagram. Now I have my diagram up. I'm all ready to go. The question now comes in: how can we get to that downloaded stencil that contains those Dell servers? Well let's open our Shapes and then navigate to My Shapes. You see how that works? We can also get this from File. Shapes, My Shapes. You'll recall that I instructed you to download that stencil into you're My Documents, My Shapes folder, and sure enough, that's where it is. Now if you don't like the name of a stencil as it's given to you by the third-party from whom you got it, you can rename it with no problem at all. What you have to do here is to navigate back to you're My Shapes folder, and frankly this is a nice shortcut to open that folder in Windows Explorer we can open the Shapes button, come down to My Shapes and then select Organize My Shapes. You see what that does? That actually opens up that folder in Windows Explorer. Now let me clean up some shavings here. Let me get rid of that Zip file, and what we can do is just click twice on the file. Not double-click because that'll open it, but just click twice to rename it. And I'll just remove some of those underscores. I'll call this Dell Power Edge Servers. There we go; little bit better, little bit neater. So to invoke this stencil we can open our Shapes tool, come over to My Shapes and then select Dell Power Edge Servers. So here we go. Now, depending upon where you get your third-party stencils, some of them are remarkably detailed, in fact I brought this guy out. It looks like this is a Power Edge 1955, the rear panel, and you'll notice, look at the tremendous detail that somebody put into this shape. That's pretty impressive. I mean we can see this bank of USB ports, and these Ethernet ports; tremendous amount of detail available here. And, again, that's one of the great beauties of using this kind of third-party stencil and shape. We can create a rack diagram for instance and really just go to town in terms of not just its look; now this looks exactly like a Power Edge 2950, but you'll remember that we can also open the View Menu, select Shape Data window, and then begin populating that shape with fields. Now this is interesting. You'll notice that I'm selecting this shape and there's no shape data involved, so we would have to build out our custom properties from the ground up. That's in stark contrast to one of the built-in computer shapes. Let me quickly bring one of those out for us. We'll bring out computers and monitors. And if we bring out a PC shape, you'll notice that Microsoft gives us a whole bunch of custom properties. So keep that in mind, that most of the time when you download a third-party shape you'll have to build-out your custom properties yourself, or link them in from an external Excel file. So that's it. That's all there is to it. I hope now that you're much better equipped to use custom stencils in Visio 2007.