{"id":137,"date":"2005-07-23T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/searching-for-visio-stencil-or.htm"},"modified":"2007-07-16T23:29:59","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T22:29:59","slug":"searching-for-visio-stencil-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/searching-for-visio-stencil-or.htm","title":{"rendered":"Searching for a Visio stencil or template?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--112215757824796648-->A couple of nights back, I was documenting the rack configuration for a client&#8217;s data centre. Easy enough using a rack configuration tool from one of the major hardware vendors, except that most of us have multi-vendor rack contents and use Microsoft Visio to record the details. Enter the index of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvps.org\/visio\/3rdparty.htm\">Visio download sites<\/a>. 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