F 0 is the original font size at the time of design, and Height 0 is the original Height of the shape. It’s located - aptly - in the Character section of the ShapeSheet.
In mathematical-formula style (ie: pseudo-ShapeSheet-code), this looks like this:Ĭhar.Size is the ShapeSheet cell that holds the font size for the shape. Okay, okay, enough theory already! What can we do to get our text to resize with our shapes?(!!!) Well, the easiest way to do this is to craft a ShapeSheet formula that compares the current height of the shape to an original height, and multiplies that by an original font size. If you are making a CAD drawing and have a circle with an “A” in that represents some piece of equipment, you probably want the A to get bigger or smaller along with the symbol.īut if you’re creating a flowchart, and you have a process box that needs a slightly longer description, you’d probably get angry if the font-size grew every time you stretched the shape! In this case, the box defines the limits of the paragraph, and the text inside is not symbolic or graphical. Okay, the question is often phrased more like “Why the heck doesn’t Visio resize my font size when I resize my shape?!!” For the user who needs that to happen at a particular time, it seems to make perfect sense, but it’s really a philosophical issue. So pull up a chair and a warm cup of coffee…
We see quite often in Visio’s newsgroups the question “how do I get my font size to change with the size of my shape?” We’ll tackle that issue with some nifty ShapeSheet formulas, and a bit of philosophizing.
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