Cross-functional flowchart title

[MaryB]

I am creating a cross-functional flowchart in Visio. When you pull over the first swimlane shape you get the swimlane, the swimlane title, the phase and a title bar across the top. I want to alter the height of this title bar. Not the one labled "Function" for the swimlane, but the title across the top. You can change the size of the text but I want to re-size the whole box. It is too big and wastes space. How can I do this??

[Paul Herber]

Which version of Visio? 2010/13 are very different to earlier versions.

[MaryB]

I am using 2010.

[Paul Herber]

Ensure you are in developer mode (search this forum for how to get into this).
Open the Drawing Explorer window.
Among the foreground pages go the appropriate page, open the shapes, find the shape CFF Container.
Expand the shapes under this shape and select Sheet.3 (If there is no sheet.3 then there will be two shapes called Sheet.x, you want the 2nd one). The title block should now have a slightly different outline (very slightly dotted).
Right-click on where it says Sheet.3 and select Show Shapesheet.
Click on the Height cell, in the formula bar you will see a complicated formula.
Overwrite this with
=0.3in
This sets the height to 0.3", saving you 0.2" in total.

[MaryB]

Paul - Thanks for the reply.  I followed all the steps and my title bar is still the same size. I enter the value you gave in field labeled:

visHeadingHeight

is that correct? Not sure where else I could have gone astray. Ideas?

[Paul Herber]

No, it's in the Shape Transform section, the first section. The Height cell.
Put the User.visHeadingHeight back to :
=MAX(TEXTHEIGHT(TheText,TxtWidth),Height)