{"id":919,"date":"2012-10-25T00:13:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T23:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/?p=919"},"modified":"2018-05-23T18:00:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T16:00:46","slug":"visio-2013-and-visio-stencils-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Visio 2013 and Visio Stencils issue (Fixed)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[Update 10\/30\/2012 Thanks to Maxm]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I use Visio a lot to create diagrams for my customers and colleagues. But when I tried to import Cisco Stencils I retrieved from the <a title=\"Cisco Visio Stencils\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/en\/US\/products\/hw\/prod_cat_visios.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cisco website<\/a>, or HP Proliant Stencils from <a title=\"VisioCafe HP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.visiocafe.com\/hp.htm\" target=\"_blank\">VisioCafe<\/a> with the Visio 2013 RTM, you get the following error message.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2012\/10\/visio2013-error-attempting-to-open-a-file-visio-stencils.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-920\" title=\"Visio 2013 Error Attempting to Open a File Visio Stencils\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2012\/10\/visio2013-error-attempting-to-open-a-file-visio-stencils.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/visio2013-error-attempting-to-open-a-file-visio-stencils.png 895w, https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/visio2013-error-attempting-to-open-a-file-visio-stencils-300x117.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a setting in Visio 2013 in the Options, Trust Center, File Block Settings that should enable you to allow Visio 203-2010 Stencils to be opened (HP, Cisco, EMC)<br \/>\nBut unfortunately something is wrong\u2026 the Option at the bottom cannot be changed from \u201cDo not open selected file types\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2012\/10\/visio2013-trust-center-file-block-settings.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-921\" title=\"Visio 2013 Trust Center File Block Settings immutable option\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2012\/10\/visio2013-trust-center-file-block-settings.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/visio2013-trust-center-file-block-settings.png 1022w, https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/visio2013-trust-center-file-block-settings-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So think hard before upgrading to Visio 2013 if you need to use Stencils.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll communicate again on the topic if I find a solution or if Microsoft respond to my \u2019Send a Frown\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <strong>Maxm<\/strong> and his reply I found the problem. The trick is to untick the boxes to be able to open Stencils. Seems backwards to me, but that&#8217;s Microsoft for you.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_948\" style=\"width: 714px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2012\/10\/visio2013-untick-boxes.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-948\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-948 \" title=\"Visio 2013 Untick Boxes in File Block Settings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2012\/10\/visio2013-untick-boxes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"704\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/visio2013-untick-boxes.png 1005w, https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/visio2013-untick-boxes-300x119.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visio 2013 Untick Boxes in File Block Settings<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Update 10\/30\/2012 Thanks to Maxm] I use Visio a lot to create diagrams for my customers and colleagues. But when I tried to import Cisco Stencils I retrieved from the Cisco website, or HP Proliant Stencils from VisioCafe with the Visio 2013 RTM, you get the following error message. There is a setting in Visio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}