Measuring Solutions or Tools

[Pool Guy]

I have been using Visio for 15+ yrs for architectural renderings, and with each new version I have been uneasy with changing over. Recently I upgraded from 03 to 07, and "Murphy's Law" the Shape Area and Perimeter is unavailable (or to be clearer it doesn't show up in my drop-downs).

As of now I am flash driving every thing to an old machine with 03 so I can measure. Does anyone have some help they can provide me with?

[Paul Herber]

Have you upgraded to Visio 2007 Standard or Professional?
The Shape Area and Perimeter tool is in Professional, not Standard.

[Pool Guy]

Thanks, Paul.  That would make sense, now wouldn't it.  I guess that was a tool left out in the comparison between Standard & Professional.  Is there another resolution other than spending so much for the upgrade to Pro?

[John Distai]

I know this doesn't solve the issue with shape area and perimeter, and this will probably be considered "the hard way", but I have a potential work around. 

I've been working on a landscape plan from a scanned property survey.  The survey has a "scale" graphic, and I included that graphic when I scanned the image.  I drew a line across the scale and determined my ratio of line length to scale length.  In my case it was 1" = 21.8'.  So I could draw a line between 2 points, check the size of the line in the shape size and position window, multiply it by 21.8, and determine my real distance.  Like I said, probably the "hard" way to do this, but it worked.