Chapter 9. Working with Pages
In This Chapter
Reviewing how templates affect pages
Changing page orientation and size
Adding and deleting
Getting around, viewing, and reordering pages
Renaming your pages
Viewing your pages
Using background pages
Rotating pages
Just about now you may be thinking, “A page is a page; what's to know? Pretty boring stuff.” There's a lot to know about pages in Visio. Visio files aren't like documents, where text flows smoothly from one page to the next with a few interesting figures thrown in here and there. Some drawings have only one page; others may have multiple pages. And in Visio, pages are independent of each other. You can set a different page size, orientation, drawing scale, background, shadow, and even header and footer for each page in a single Visio file. You can also rotate a page to make drawing angled lines and shapes easier — and then rotate it back again when you've finished drawing. This makes Visio flexible, but it also makes it more complex than your average text editor.
The Role of the Template
A template is designed to make creating a drawing easier because it sets up a drawing scale (such as a typical architectural scale of ¼ inch:1 foot), and it automatically opens the stencils that you need to create a particular type of drawing (such as the Office Layout stencil for creating a space plan). Refer to Chapter 2 if you need a refresher on using templates to create a Visio file.
A template also sets up the size of the drawing page and the printer ...
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