Add a shape to Favorites in Microsoft Visio Professional 2019

[Fossbender]

One would think this would be a relatively simple procedure, or at least the answer would be available with a web search. However, multiple web searches yielded no results. All of the results told me to right-click, which does not provide any information on how to add the shape to Favorites, unless I'm missing something.

I'm using Microsoft Visio Professional 2019. I want to add a shape to Favorites, under My Shapes.

That way, I'll be able to locate shapes quickly.

I am unable to find any documentation about how to perform this procedure.

[#2]

@Fossbender 

If you select it on the stencil, not the drawing, you should be able to select the "add to my shapes" > My Shapes > Favorites. Make sure you are clicking on the shape in the stencil. Does that help?

[#3 · Accepted solution]

@Chas Burdick Yes, this works. Now I understand how to get a shape into Favorites.

Here is why this approach counterintuitive and makes the user experience more difficult:

• There are many shapes in many submenus in Visio
• I typically drag many shapes onto the page
• Once a shape is on the page, there is no way to determine which stencil it came from
  • At least, I am not able to determine which stencil a shape came from
• If you are not able to determine which stencil a shape came from, it is therefore impossible to add it to your Favorites
• The only logical solution is to add every shape you think you might want to Favorites, and subsequently delete unneeded shapes
  • This is obviously counterintuitive and difficult

Any shape on a page should be able to be added to Favorites without having to reverse direction and attempt to remember which stencil it came from.