If you have any custom graphics you use often -- shapes that have been heavily customized, embedded images, or groups of graphics that you always use together as one element, for example -- you might find it convenient to put those graphics on a stencil so they can be easily dragged and dropped into your documents.
To create a stencil:
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Choose New Stencil from the Stencil menu. This will open up a stencil editor window and the stencil viewer will show an empty stencil. Add graphics and make changes to the stencil editor. The changes are immediately reflected in the stencil viewer.
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Choose Save (⌘S) from the File menu. Close the stencil editor window when you are done modifying the stencil. The next time the stencil is opened, the stencil viewer will display the stencil, but you will not get a stencil editor.
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To edit an existing stencil:
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Choose Edit Stencil from the Stencil menu. This will open up a window for editing the stencil.
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Make your changes in the stencil editor window and save the changes as above.
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The built-in stencils that ship with OmniGraffle cannot normally be edited, but you can edit a copies of them.
To edit a built-in stencil, control-click on the body of the stencil viewer and select Copy and Edit Stencil. This will create a new Untilted stencil that has all of the graphics from the current stencil.
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Any groups of graphics you'd like to work with as one should be grouped using the Group (⇧⌘G) command.
For best results, arrange the graphics such that they're near the upper left corner of the document.
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Creating and Editing Stencils