What is really frustrating is that it is hard to control the order in which the windows are tiled. These will arrange Visio child windows in the manner shown above, but much more quickly. After you get sick of returning to it every time you want to arrange windows, you’ll finally invest a memory cell or two in the keyboard shortcuts: Shift + F7 and Shift + Ctrl + F7. Since the ribbon likes to bounce around a lot, you’ll find that your View tab is usually not there any more. You can toggle back and forth between vertical and horizontal arrangements by holding down Shift or Ctrl when clicking Arrange all. You can use some trickery and hold down the Ctrl key when you hit Arrange All. Heavy ShapeSheet users will find the two windows a bit narrow for viewing formulas. You’ll get something like this if you’ve got three windows open: For instance, if you are using Visio 2010, and have a lot of patience, every time you want to tile a window, you can go over to the View tab, find the Window group, then click the Arrange All button.

Visio has some window-tiling behavior, but it is lacking. Or even multiple windows looking at different parts of one big diagram. If you do lots of technical drawings or complicated network or process flow diagrams, then you might have windows to multiple pages open at the same time. If you develop SmartShapes like me, you’ll have lots of ShapeSheet windows open, and perhaps a few group windows to boot. There are plenty of reasons to have a bunch of windows open in Visio. Today, while reading PC Magazine (on my nook) I ran across a nifty (free!) utility that allows you to have Aero-snap-like behavior inside of applications that have multiple child windows.īut first, let’s look at Visio window arrangement, and why it is inadequate for the 21st century. Drag to the right edge, and snap!, your window neatly occupies the right-half of the screen! What could be easier? Want to work with two documents at the same time? Just drag one window to the left of your screen ,and snap!, it docks to the left half of your screen. Windows 7’s Aero Snap feature has certainly spoiled me, perhaps you to? Maybe something like Windows 7, where you drag a window to an edge, and it snaps into place, and resizes automatically?

Wouldn’t it be great if you could quickly re-arrange Visio child windows the way you wanted to?

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