Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Step by Step

Chapter 7. Laying Out Office Spaces

Chapter at a Glance

In this chapter, you will learn how to:
✓	Create scaled office spaces.
✓	Add door, window, and furniture shapes to office layouts.
✓	Organize shapes in office layouts by using layers.

Think of something big—a house, an office building, or your backyard. Using Visio, you can diagram a large object on a small drawing page by use 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 ...