Prevent Visio wall re-sizing -- extrordinary frustration

[IT Guy]

I was a mechanical engineer in college and used AutoCAD heavily and loved it.
10 years later I'm trying to do a SIMPLE diagram of a single room in Visio
2007. I'm PULLING MY HAIR OUT.

Basically what is happening is that interior/exterior walls that I setup are
automagically resizing based on snapping to other walls. I even give a wall a
specific length, say, 10' and drag another wall near it and bam...it
lengthens. I find this behavior extremely frustrating and idiotic. If I tell
it a wall is 10', what on earth possessed the developers to think I want them
to make it longer without asking me?

How can I turn on this very poor behavior? I'm ready to strangle whoever
thought this idea was good when doing architectural floorplans.

Help!

 

[David Parker]

Whilst agreeing that it can be frustrating, I don't think that murder is the
answer.
Have you tried right mouse click, Format / Protection, then checking Width ?
The walls are 1D shapes in Visio, so the Height is probably what you think
of as Width, and Width is probably what you think of as Length.