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Visio newbie
I'm working with Visio for the first time. Now that I've finished my first
drawing, I need to add another drawing of equal size to the same page.
However, I made the first drawing so big that there is not enough room on the
page to add another drawing of equal size. I would like to reduce the size
of the drawing (and all shapes within it, of course) by about one-third. I
have searched through all the menu options and there seems to be no way to do
this. I tried copying the drawing and pasting it onto another page, hoping
that the paste operation would allow a resize, but this did not work either.
I tried to resize by dragging a corner, but many of the shapes within the
drawing did not resize, and I got the message "shape protection and/or layer
properties prevent complete execution of this command", even though the layer
is not locked and nothing is selected under Format/Protection.
The only other thing I know of to try, is to make the page size larger in
hopes that the size of the drawing would remain the same, and then hope that
the "fit to page" option in the print dialog can be permanently set (so that,
for example, a page of size 17 X 22, when printed, will always fit on an 8.5
X 11 page). However, it doesn't make sense that this kind of "trick" would
be the only way to do this. Any help is very much appreciated!!
drawing, I need to add another drawing of equal size to the same page.
However, I made the first drawing so big that there is not enough room on the
page to add another drawing of equal size. I would like to reduce the size
of the drawing (and all shapes within it, of course) by about one-third. I
have searched through all the menu options and there seems to be no way to do
this. I tried copying the drawing and pasting it onto another page, hoping
that the paste operation would allow a resize, but this did not work either.
I tried to resize by dragging a corner, but many of the shapes within the
drawing did not resize, and I got the message "shape protection and/or layer
properties prevent complete execution of this command", even though the layer
is not locked and nothing is selected under Format/Protection.
The only other thing I know of to try, is to make the page size larger in
hopes that the size of the drawing would remain the same, and then hope that
the "fit to page" option in the print dialog can be permanently set (so that,
for example, a page of size 17 X 22, when printed, will always fit on an 8.5
X 11 page). However, it doesn't make sense that this kind of "trick" would
be the only way to do this. Any help is very much appreciated!!