{"id":459,"date":"2014-11-10T17:47:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T17:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/?p=459"},"modified":"2017-01-07T22:26:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T22:26:54","slug":"visio-stencils-vssx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/visio-stencils-vssx\/","title":{"rendered":"Visio Stencils .vssx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just downloaded a new Visio stencil to use in my artistic creations! However my copy of Visio 2010 (yes, 2010!) could not understand it.<\/p>\n<p>Previously Visio Stencil files always had a <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">.vss<\/span><\/strong> file extension and could easily be added to Visio 2010.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_460\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-460\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/vssx.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-460\" src=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/vssx.png\" alt=\"new Visio stencil format\" width=\"330\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/vssx.png 330w, https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/vssx-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">new Visio stencil format<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seems like the new <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">.vssx<\/span><\/strong> format is NOT supported by Visio 2010 unless updated with&#8230;yes, you guessed it, a compatability pack! Hurrah I hear you cheer, where can I get it from? Here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Visio Compatability Pack\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/confirmation.aspx?id=39640\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/confirmation.aspx?id=39640<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The alternative is to upgrade to Visio 2013. Not as much fun. Enjoy your vssx files.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: You need to have applied Visio 2010 SP2 before you can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just downloaded a new Visio stencil to use in my artistic creations! However my copy of Visio 2010 (yes, 2010!) could not understand it. Previously Visio Stencil files always had a .vss file extension and could easily be added to Visio 2010. Seems like the new .vssx format is NOT supported by Visio 2010 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[416,417,418,413,419,414,415],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tfn","tag-416","tag-417","tag-sp2","tag-visio","tag-visioconverter","tag-vss","tag-vssx"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p502c8-7p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}