Microsoft Visio is a presentation application that is often used for businesses to show strategy plans, outcomes, probabilities, functions and other items through the use of visual charts. A flow chart is one of the simplest of charts to create in the application and it is useful for planning a process. After creating a flow chart, you can easily adjust the width of the individual shapes in the chart or change the width of the entire chart itself to meet your preferences. The process for changing the width can be accomplished the same way for both the 2003 and 2007 versions of Microsoft Visio.
Instructions
Change Width of Page Size
1. Open the Microsoft Visio application on your computer, then click on the "File" option from the top toolbar menu. Click on the "Open" option and locate the Visio flowchart that you want to work with. Click on the "Open" button.
2. Click on the "File" option from the top toolbar menu if you want to change the width of the entire page and chart.
3. Click on the "Page Setup" option and then click on the "Page Size" tab. Click on the "Size to fit drawing contents" option.
4. Enter a number for the width size into the "Width" field if you still want to change the width size. Click on the "OK" button to save your changes.
5. Point your mouse at the side of the page in the application and hold down the "CTRL" key for another way to adjust the width size of the entire chart. Move your mouse left or right to change the width size.
Change Width of Chart Shapes
6. Open the Microsoft Visio application on your computer, then click on the "File" option from the top toolbar menu. Click on the "Open" option and then find the Visio file containing your flowchart. Click on the "Open" button.
7. Click on any of the shapes and a selection handle will appear when you hover your mouse over the side of the shape.
8. Click on the selection handle and move to adjust the width of the shape to meet your preferences. Continue to adjust the width for each shape in the flow chart.
9. Hold down the "CTRL" key on your keyboard and select every single shape if you want to adjust the width so that it's the same size for every shape.
10. Click on the "View" option from the top toolbar menu and then click on the "Size and Position Window" option. Enter a value to change the width for all of the shapes into the "Width" field and then click on the "OK" button.
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