Select shapes partially within area

Supported on: At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

Registry

HKCU software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\visio\application

Value name: areaselection

Enabled: areaselection = 1

Disabled: areaselection = 0

Description

If you select shapes by using a selection net(dragging a box around shapes on the drawing page), you can change the selection settings to also include shapes that are partially within the selection net.