How Does One Horizontal Baseline Dimensioning Shape

I am doing a space plan and have a series of offices along the outside wall
of a building. What I am trying to do is have a set of nested dimensions
with the outermost the overall length and then inside of that dimensions for
each of the individual offices and then within that the locations of the
windows within the offices.

Is the horizontal baseline, or vertical for that matter, supposed to let
you create nested dimensions? The icon looks like it should but I can not
for the life of me figure out how to do it. I have also looked at several of
the MVP sites and could not find any reference to this.

Any help would be appreciated.

Drop the shape on the page near your objects. Position the end points
(green handles) where you want the shortest (innermost) dimension to be.
Move your cursor over the yellow control handles to read their tooltips.
Drag the one that says "Reposition 2nd dimension line" to the next place you
want to dimension to. A new contol handle will be available in the original
location for the 3rd dimension line. Keep dragging out the control handles
until you have dimensioned everything on the baseline.

--
Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"RAR" wrote in message
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I am doing a space plan and have a series of offices along the outside wall
of a building. What I am trying to do is have a set of nested
dimensions
with the outermost the overall length and then inside of that dimensions
for
each of the individual offices and then within that the locations of the
windows within the offices.

Is the horizontal baseline, or vertical for that matter, supposed to let
you create nested dimensions? The icon looks like it should but I can
not
for the life of me figure out how to do it. I have also looked at several
of
the MVP sites and could not find any reference to this.

Any help would be appreciated.

That works great, thanks for the help.

Rob

"Mark Nelson [MS]" wrote:

Drop the shape on the page near your objects. Position the end points
(green handles) where you want the shortest (innermost) dimension to be.
Move your cursor over the yellow control handles to read their tooltips.
Drag the one that says "Reposition 2nd dimension line" to the next place you
want to dimension to. A new contol handle will be available in the original
location for the 3rd dimension line. Keep dragging out the control handles
until you have dimensioned everything on the baseline.

--
Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"RAR" wrote in message
...
I am doing a space plan and have a series of offices along the outside wall
of a building. What I am trying to do is have a set of nested
dimensions
with the outermost the overall length and then inside of that dimensions
for
each of the individual offices and then within that the locations of the
windows within the offices.

Is the horizontal baseline, or vertical for that matter, supposed to let
you create nested dimensions? The icon looks like it should but I can
not
for the life of me figure out how to do it. I have also looked at several
of
the MVP sites and could not find any reference to this.

Any help would be appreciated.