Right-click the shape and choose Guard Position menu item.Set the Shape Data field: Position Guarded to True or False.You can quickly lock the position of each shape by one of three methods: They are really designed with drawing in mind, more than for flowcharting, but they could be used for the latter drawing type. I’ve created some shapes that you can download that solve these problems to some extent. The shape translates on resize, but then remains locked in position! So to stay centered, you’d have to resize half the way in all four directions. (Well, I suppose I could build a custom toolbar…)Ĭuriously, even Locking X position and Y position via the Format > Protection dialog doesn’t fix this problem. Two toolbar buttons that are accessible via a drop-down, so four clicks in all. You have to center-align in the X-direction, then center-align in the Y-direction. The alignment toolbar buttons aren’t much help either, because there is no “bullseye” alignment feature. The keyboard shortcut: Alt + S, A can help speed things up a bit by getting you to the Alignment dialog more quickly, but sadly, my brain only has so much space for keyboard shortcuts. Having to align the shapes can get tedious after awhile. In my own case, I frequently create Visio drawings that use a lot of concentric circles and “concentric” rectangles–along the lines of the squares shown in the thumbnail for this article. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to stretch the shape (say, to accomodate more text) without losing the in-line position? We’d like the rectangle to stay centered with the flow of the diagram, but resizing moves it down and to the right. If you wanted your shape to stay centered at it’s current location, then you have to move it back after resizing.īelow, we can see what happens in Visio in the case of flowcharts.
Neat-o!īut unless I have totally missed something (which does occur occasionally), there is one feature that Visio could really use: the ability to resize shapes on-center.Ĭurrently, when you resize a shape, it grows in the direction in you pulled: left, right, upwards, downwards. For instance, with the Shift key depressed, you can constrain a shape to move only vertically or horizontally. Visio has tons of keyboard shortcuts, including modifiers for constraining the resizing and moving of shapes.
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