From the course: Visio Desktop: Tips and Tricks

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Select with layers

Select with layers

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Select with layers

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- [Instructor] If you're familiar with the use of layers in computer-aided design programs like AutoCAD, you'll find that layers in Visio serve a different purpose. In Visio, layers are a way to organize collections of shapes so you can apply or remove the same properties for all shapes on the layer. Much of what you can do with Visio layers is outside the scope of this course. However, I do want to show you how you can use layers to select a set of related shapes, or to prevent a set of related shapes from being selected. Let's say that I want to apply a color to all of the walls, doors, and windows in this diagram. I could manually select every single one of them, but that would take forever. And chances are, I'd miss some along the way. But I happen to know that all of those shapes are organized on a layer called the building envelope. The secret to selecting them all is at the right end of the home tab. In the…

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