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rturrado
rturrado

Reputation: 8054

How to resize a note in a Visio 2010 UML diagram

I have added a note with about 50 lines of text to an UML diagram in Visio 2010, and I can't resize the shape. I can see connection points, but not the blue ones that you can drag to resize the shape. Modifying the height manually through View menu, Task Panes, Size & Position, doesn't work either.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6838

Answers (4)

Soap
Soap

Reputation: 303

Tested and works in Visio 2010

i. Select the shape

  1. Select the Developer ribbon. (You may need to make this visible by right clicking on the ribbon>Customize the Ribbon> Tick the Developer box)

  2. (Developer ribbon) From "Shape Design" select "Protection". Untick both Width & Height

  3. (Developer ribbon) From "Shape Design" select "Show ShapeSheet" > "Shape"

  4. Within the "Shape Transform" table remove "GUARD" from the width and height cells

N.B This will work for with a singly selected shape, not a group. By copying the modified shape the shapes settings will remain with the copy although this seems to result in the text field in the copy being uneditable.

Upvotes: 3

Steve
Steve

Reputation: 123

You can format the text using shift / enter for line breaks to change the shape of the text which will change the shape of the box. Not elegant but workable.

Upvotes: 5

Óskar Birgisson
Óskar Birgisson

Reputation: 21

http://www.softwarestencils.com/uml/#Visio2010 fixed this problem for me. If you want to have complete control over the formatting, this is the "only" way (at least that I've found) that doesn't cost anything.

Upvotes: 2

UML GURU
UML GURU

Reputation: 1462

A note usually can only be resize to the minimum size of the letters inside. I mean that you resize the size of caracters or the shape of the note in order to get the smaller rectangle or square and the note should automatically resize themselves. If not this is a bug !!

Upvotes: 2

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