Visio 2003: How to remove blank pages

Question

I have a visio diagram (using the database model diagram) that I'm trying to print.

Originally, it was 5 pages wide, and 5 high. I've reorganized the diagram so that it's now just 3x3, but I can't figure out how to get rid of the now-blank pages.

Under page setup, the print setup tab, paper is letter size, landscape, and print zoom is set to 100%.

Under the Page Size tab, it's set to "Size to fit drawing contents".

It seems that anything I do to try to eliminate the un-needed blank pages also re-organizes the shapes on the drawing. Is there a way to avoid that?

Solution 1

One way to do this is hold down the Control key and put your mouse over the edge of the "paper" space in Visio. The grip changes to resize shapes so you can modify the drawing size.

Hope that helps. It seems there are many different ways to do this in Visio, but it's hard to use the one that sticks when it comes to printing...

Solution 2

I had this issue, pressing CTRL-A showed there was some kind of invisible box outside my drawing. I could click on it but it wouldn't let me delete it. When you hovered over it, it would show the arrows and let you make boxes off each side. So I created a box on each side, selected all 5 boxes and pressed delete and it finally went away.

Solution 3

I just had what sounds like a similar problem... turned out it was some of my text boxes (within shapes) that were going over the page (even through the text itself didn't go over)

Was just a case of F2-ing each text box to see which box had gone of the page

Comments

[chris]

The real problem is that when I print I get 9 pages of information, and 14 blank pages.

[chris]

OK, just got a chance to try this, and it worked! Thanks so much!