Alignment

Hello Catherine,

Hope you enjoyed your Microsoft Visio course with BEST Training.
Thank you for your question regarding alignment and distribution.

To achieve the result you want, you need to use 2 tools in Visio - ALIGNMENT and DISTRIBUTION

ALIGNMENT
To align, select the shape on the page that you want to be the MASTER SHAPE, the one that all the other shapes align to. Then slect all the shapes you want to align. You will notice a thicker pink border around the MASTER SHAPE. Once you have this, then click SHAPE > ALIGN SHAPES from the menubar. There are 6 options which are self explanitory.

DISTRIBUTION
This tool will space the shapes you have selected evenly betwwen the outer limit shapes. Simply select a number of shapes you want to evenly distribute, making sure than the shapes on the outer edges of your selection are where you want them. Once you have this, then click SHAPE > DISTRIBUTE SHAPES from the menubar.
There are 8 options. Remember that the lines on these buttons indicate the spacing between the shapes. Look carefully at the diagrams on the choices. Notice the direction of the shapes, not the lines.
Choose the one you want, and off you go.

I hope this resolves your question. If it has, please mark this question as resolved.

If you require further assistance, please reply to this post. Or perhaps you have another Microsoft Office question?

Have a great day.
Regards,

Richard
Microsoft Specialist Trainer