Lock shape edges together?

[justward]

Is it possible to lock the edges of two shapes in a group so that when
resizing the group the edges will stay together?
My Example: I created a rectangle that has shapes on top of each of
the 4 sides that are aligned with that side. the shapes on the four
sides are to make the box appear to be 3D. The right sides are aligned
to the right, left sides to the left, etc. When I resize this group,
the sides will not stay aligned with each other, a gap appears between
the edge of the rectangle and its corresponding shape. If you need
more info let me know its kind of hard to explain.

 

[Al Edlund]

Sounds like you are trying to do a 'union' of the shapes. You might check
this out

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/HP010254151033.aspx

al

 

[J Kallay]

If anything this would be a 'Combine', although that would preclude using
different formatting on the subshapes, no?

 

[Al Edlund]

possibly. I'm not quite sure of what is desired and thought it best to point
them to a little more information on merging shapes.
al