Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Inside Out

Aligning and Moving Shapes with Guides

Guides help you align objects and position them with precision, as Figure 16-21 shows. You can drag guide lines and guide points from the Visio rulers and drop them anywhere on the page. You can also format shapes as guides to create curved guides.

Figure 16-21. Using the Size & Position window, you can rotate a guide and pinpoint its exact location on the page.

Guides can be helpful reference points, providing a visible (and, by default, nonprinting) line along which to position shapes. When you glue shapes to a guide line or guide point, you can then drag the guide to move those shapes, retaining their relationship ...