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Creating an IsMetric function in Visio

In Visio, a page's drawing units are defined by the value found in the DrawingScale cell. Like all cells you can interrogate this in code via the Cell.Units property, but in the ShapeSheet, there's no direct method to find out the same information. So I thought I'd write down one way you could approach this.

Stencils under 'More Shapes' in Visio

If you deal with both metric and US units based diagrams then it can be useful to understand how Visio goes about surfacing the correct stencil under the 'More Shapes' menu. This, of course goes double if you're creating stencils yourself, so I thought I describe how things work below.