Select all and drag to resize

[Rodney C. Knight]

Hello all, I use Visio to work on network diagrams, so I thought that I must
be pretty good - so I went and built a drawing of my multi level house
(one floor per sheet). My problem is I did not set up the pages correctly. I
have the drawing done and I want to resize the entire thing by selecting all
then grabbing a corner and dragging. I do this and then notice 2 things -
some of the shapes are not resized correctly - they seem to have some lock on
the endpoint or something. and I get this warning "shape protection and/or
layer properties prevent complete execution of this command" I have tried
looking at the "walls" properties for the layer and for the protection but
cannot find what to un check. I have tried grouping and resizing and that
does not work.

And the reason i want to resize is to fit to one page (not when printing but
when I'm working on it.) my drawing looks to to be about a 25th of the sheet
size.

Thanks in advance for t he help and the time.
Rodney Knight

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

The shapes you used are scaled shapes. You don't really want to stretch the
drawing, you want to change the scale of the drawing (so that the objects
better fit the page)

Go to File > Page Setup > Drawing Scale.

The shapes represent real-world objects. So if, for example, you have a
32-inch wide window, it should stay 32-inches. Changing the drawing scale
will make this shape appear larger or smaller on the page, but won't change
it's 32-inch physical size.


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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

Free Visio shapes:
http://www.visguy.com/category/shapes
Visio programming info:
http://www.visguy.com/category/programming/
Other Visio resources:
http://www.visguy.com/visio-links/

 

[Rodney C. Knight]

Chris,

Thanks that helped, of course because I did the pages in a different scale
on each I cannot make them consistant, but they will "visually" look close.

thanks!
Rodney