I think my floorplan blew up

[John Simons]

Visio 2003 SP2 with all the latest patches.

I have an extensive floor plan created in a file. I renamed the page by
double-clicking on the tab and replacing the name with 'Current'. I then
added a page and called it 'Proposed'. The program hour-glassed for a bit
which I thought was curious and then hung. I could close the program and
since I did some editing on the file, I saved it when prompted. The next
time I opened the file, the design was not visible and the scale was
literally off the charts (it says X = - 46 ft., Y = 89478492 ft. 6, and if I
go into Page Setup and try to fit the drawing to the scale, it says that the
scale is 2.08e28 x 2.08e28) The file size is 1.2 MB so I know there is a
bunch of stuff there, but I can't seem to get it to show up. HELP!

I, of course do not have a backup of the file as it was just created today.
Any suggestions as to how I can get this drawing back?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

John Simons

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Dang John!!!

Here's a little tidbit or two that might help you find the mystery shapes:

1. View > Layer Properties...
Make sure all of your layers are visible. This will help you in the hunt
for mystery shapes.
2. View > Drawing Explorer Window
You can browse this tree control to the current page, and see a list of
all the shapes on the page. As you select a shape-node in this tree, it will
be pan/zoomed in the drawing window, so you can inspect it and see if it is
garbage or not.

First steps, anyway...

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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/

 

[John Simons]

Chris:
I tried to mess with the layers and could not get anything to appear.
Any way I can send you the file (~1.2 MB) offline and see if you can do
anything with it?

John