How do I design my home in Microsoft?

[chgunnerson]

I am trying to draw and design my dream home. Is there an easy way to
accomplish this in Microsoft office?

 

[Chip Pearson]

Office doesn't have a graphics/drawing program as such. The best
you can do is to enable the Drawing toolbar and build your design
from basic shapes. I would recommend a program dedicated for
home design, there are several good and cheap ones available.


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com


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[CLR]

Well, like Chip says, there's lots easier programs to do it in, but if you
just HAVE to draw in Excel, it's possible, just not very user friendly. One
way is to set all t he column widths to 1.71, which makes every cell appear
square. You can consider every square a square foot (or so) and make
borders on the cells where you want lines. Or, you can just enable the
Drawing Toolbar and actually draw individual lines to the shapes you want.
Either way is crude, but can be done........but there is no automatic
dimensioning system.........you have to do that by hand too.........

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3

 

[Joe Blow]

I am trying to draw and design my dream home. Is there an easy way to
accomplish this in Microsoft office?

You might want to look at MS Visio.

Joe

 

[Don Guillett]

I had pretty good luck using 12.75 row ht and 2 column width, calling that 4
feet and then text boxes. Then you can move em around to get a design.