1. Open the drawing that has the custom theme that you want to copy.
2. Select a shape with the custom theme applied.
3. On the Edit menu, click Copy.
4. Open the drawing that you want to copy the custom theme to.
5. On the Edit menu, click Paste. The custom theme is added to the Themes task pane.

    Note   If you don’t see the Theme task pane, on the Format menu, click Theme.

6. You can now delete the shape that you pasted into your drawing.

 Note   You cannot copy a theme from another Microsoft Office program, such as PowerPoint or Word, to Visio. You also cannot copy a theme from Visio to another Microsoft Office program.