Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007

Chapter 4.Guides, Rulers, and Custom Shapes

In This Chapter

Visio and Placement Tools

Handling the Drawing Grid

Working with the Dynamic Grid

Getting a Sense of Scale

Snapping Shapes

Using Rulers

Handling Guide Lines and Guide Points

Aligning Shapes and Distributing Shapes

Creating Custom Shapes

Drawing Shapes

Joining and Combining Shapes

Stacking Shapes

Working with Shapes

Styling Shapes

Visio and Placement Tools

A big part of Visio is placing shapes just as you want them, and Visio has plenty of tools to assist in that. For example, you can snap shapes to the grid in Visio, or use the rulers to align shapes as you need them.

Here’s a list of the concepts coming up in this chapter:

• Alignment—Alignment means aligning shapes with respect to ...