Blog Post: Visio Shapes pane is missing in Visio 2010

If you don?t see any shapes window on the left of a new drawing after you upgrade to Visio 2010 go to the View tab, click on Task Panes, and click on Shapes

Shapes window missing above

You should now have the shapes pane. This is a toggle, on/off setting. If you click on the Shapes option again it turns the shapes pane off.

I?ve seen this with several customers upgrading from a previous version, like 2007, to 2010. I haven?t been able to recreate the issue on any of my systems with an upgrade from 2007 to 2010.

Amber Heard Veronica Kay Mýa Natalie Imbruglia Patricia Velásquez