stop Visio from moving shapes

[Chuck D]

I have a very simple question involving how to stop Visio from moving my
shapes around. I have a layout of a parent with seven children in Org chart
structure built using WBS modeler. In order to keep the drawing on one page,
I need to change the format of one of the childern so that they are displayed
horizontally instead of vertically. I disconnected the childern, put them
where I wanted them and locked them from change. But everytime I try to
connect the three chidren to the parent, Visio move them around. This is
getting more than annoying. How can I stop this?

Thanks, Chuck D.

 

[David Parker]

WBS Modeler has layouting rules built into it.

In general, you select the parent shape then use either the right mouse
actions or the shape data to toggle the vertical/horizontal arrangements of
child elements.

You can change the spacing between child elements too by changing the
relevant shape data between Tightest;Tight;Normal;Loose;Loosest

You can add spaces between elements if you need them to be irregularly
spaced, or to effectively make them left or right justified

I suspect that you are not changing the shape data "Vertical Child Elements"
to False, therefore they are automatically arranged vertically when you
re-connect them.

 

[Chuck D]

Thank you David. It was the "Vertical Child Elements" setting.