Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Step by Step

Chapter 7. Laying Out Office Spaces

In this chapter you will learn to:

• Creating Scaled Office Spaces

• Adding Door, Window, and Furniture Shapes to Office Layouts

• Organizing Shapes in Office Layouts by Using Layers

Think of something big—a house, an office building, or your backyard. Using Microsoft Office Visio, you can diagram a large object on a small drawing page by using a drawing scale, which represents the relationship between the object's size in the real world and its size on the page. Like a map that depicts a 10-mile stretch of highway with a 1-inch line, a scaled diagram represents physical space and objects at a ratio or a fraction of their real size. A drawing scale isn't only for large objects—you can draw very small objects, such as ...