Background problem

[registerme]

I would like to add a background to a Visio drawing.

But whenever I try dragging a background (from the background stencil)
to my drawing, the background appears in the *corner* of my diagram
only.

I think that this has to do with the orientation of the page. My
drawing is portrait and the background appears to be landscape.

I tried to copy-and-paste the background. This appears to work (the
dragged background fits over my drawing perfectly) but then hides my
drawing! And I can see how to bring my drawing to the foreground.

Visio is a nice programe - with a bad interface and help system.

Bobby

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

When you add a background page from the background stencil, it creates a new
background page called VBackground. The image is rescaled to match the
currrent background page. If you change the orientation of the drawing, you
will also have to change the orientation of the background page. The image
will rescale.

There does seem to be an issue if you create a second page with a different
oreientation and background. The new background will inherit from the old
background and the orientation will match the original. (Take a look at the
Page Setup for the new background page and you will see that this background
page has a background page pointing to the original background page (this
can be deleted))

John... Visio MVP

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