Centering All shapes in a contianer.

[bwharrington]

I'm trying to find if Visio has a native function I can use to center all the shapes in a container. This may be a bit loaded but I do know this is done is some capacity with layouts.

Is anyone aware of something like this we can call?

Thanks,

[wapperdude]

I What do you mean, center all shapes? 

Literal interpretation would be every shape aligned to center of the container. 

The more likely meaning would be to center the shapes as a group. 

Third possibility is to uniformly distribute the shapes within the container. 

Finally a 4th solution, fit the container to the shapes, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/visio.containerproperties.fittocontents

[Yacine]

Right click on container, select content, use the aligning sub menu and align horizontally.

[wapperdude]

@ Yacine:  OK, that's another option for "centering".  I took the OP's question to mean centering the shapes to the container.  But your interpretation would be centering to each other, the shapes within the container.  LOL.

[Yacine]

@Wayne,
right, you center first the elements to each other, then you fit the container to its content. I missed mentioning this last step.
Then were're on part.

[bwharrington]

Thank you guys,

I learned a couple new things with some of what Visio can do. Wapperdudes initial post made me realize that while my requirement seems like something Visio would just do, it opens up a world of other questions and that my requirement was probably more custom than I think.

Ultimate I ended up writing a custom solution. Its not perfect but it will work.

Thanks again guys. I really appreciate your input.

[wapperdude]

Cool!