How to change precision of dimensions in Vision 2000?

[Gus]

I'm using Visio 2000 to draw up floorplans and have encountered a couple
problems:

- when I select "Add a dimension", it shows the dimensions to the nearest
fraction of an inch. I need to simply show feet and the nearest inch (so,
instead of 8' 10 3/16" i'd like to just get 8'10"). I've tried everything
but obviously not the right thing to correct this. Can anyone out there
advise on how to fix this?!

- Also, is there a way to enter dimension as Feet and Inches? When I go to
View-->Size & Position, the dialogue boxes only offer decimals - is there
any way to enter this as as feet+inches instead?

Thanks!

Gus

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

Is there a Precision & Units option on the right-click menu for the
dimension shape?

 

[Gus]

There is - but when I fooled around with this, it still wouldn't offer an
option that rounds up to nearest inch.
Gus

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

I can point you to a solution for Visio 2002, but I am not sure whether this
will work for Visio 2000. Please let me know.

Select your dimension shape. Choose Show Shapesheet from the Window menu.
Look for a table called User-defined Cells. Within that table find a row
named User.InchPrec. Change the Value from 16 to 1. Close the Shapesheet
Window.

This setting determines the precision of the inches measurement for ft-in
units. The default is 1/16".

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Mark Nelson
Microsoft Corporation

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[Gus]

Mark,

I thought it would work...but it doesn't - I opened up the Shapesheet and it
seems to have just about every possible User. parameter....with exception of
User.InchPrec! Surprising!

Gus

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

My apologies. Our dimension shapes got an overhaul in Visio 2000 and a
minor update in Visio 2002. The extra functionality for controlling inch
precision must have been introduced in Visio 2002.

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Mark Nelson
Microsoft Corporation

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