Have you ever seen some really nice and cute custom shapes and wished you can use them in your own vizzes? I have.

Yeah, Google search told me that those little shapes are stored in some temp folders with weird names. Once they are found if we are lucky, we have to extract the custom shapes or icons/images into a special folder somewhere (please remind me of the path to Shapes). Then we have to import them into our Tableau Desktop as custom shapes. Quite a hassle!

Here is a simple way (it applies to Tableau Desktop only, not Public).
1.Open the viz with shapes of interest in Tableau Desktop
2.Right click the sheet tab containing the chart with those shapes and copy
3.Right click a blank sheet tab in your destination workbook and paste
Now the shapes must be in your new workbook. Check it out to make sure. Create some simple chart with the new shapes and delete the copied sheet. The best way to delete the sheet is to close the data source that comes with the sheet.

Once you know how to do it, it is as simple as copy and paste.

Now you can go out and steal some. Try to download this workbook and copy the 3D sphere shapes, which I got from George Gorczynski.
According to Steve Jobs, Pablo Picasso once said, "Good artists copy; Great artists steal." You might be on your way to becoming great!

Last but not the least, attribute the creation to the original author in one way or another.