Adding coordinates to a diagram

[J. Ingram]

I'm VERY new to Visio. I inherited a database diagram that includes 100's of
tables. I'd like to add some sort of axis to the diagram so I can say "find
this table at X,Y" coordinates. Is that possible? All I can find is the ruler
(dates, not numbers) and the X,Y graph that doesn't plot points.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Paul Herber]

I'm VERY new to Visio. I inherited a database diagram that includes 100's of
tables. I'd like to add some sort of axis to the diagram so I can say "find
this table at X,Y" coordinates. Is that possible? All I can find is the ruler
(dates, not numbers) and the X,Y graph that doesn't plot points.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I'm guessing that by "ruler" you mean one of the timelines.

Have you enabled the page rulers:
menu View - Rulers

 

[J. Ingram]

Do you mean Rulers and Grids (Visio 2003)? I did that, but I don't believe it
prints. I want something that displays on the page and printed diagram.

The ruler I mentioned is a shape (ruler timeline).

 

[Paul Herber]

Well, what you could do is to start up a graphics program that can do
screen capture, do a capture of the screen including the ruler area,
crop to suit and save this image as a Visio shape in a new stencil.
Drag, drop and resize this ruler shape to suit