How to rotate the view?

With a Visio document, it's (still) easy to zoom and pan within the page. But how do you rotate the view? That is, look at it from a different side — not change the drawing itself, just like zooming doesn't change the shapes but just the way you look at them in the window.

BTW, selecting all and rotating the shapes as a group does not work because of shapes that are specific to horiz or vertical placement; in particular the dimension line labeling.

3 Answers

• Zoom out to see the full page
• Hover the cursor over the top right corner of the page while holding down the control key. The cursor should change to an arrow going in a circle.
• You can then rotate the page. Anything on the page will also rotate. The angle of the page should show in the status bar.

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To sum it up:

1. Using Ctrl + A to capture all.
2. On the "Home" tab, in the "Arrange" group.
3. Drop down "Group", and select "Group"
4. Click Status bar, click Angle to open the "Size & Position" window.
5. In the "Size & Position" window, change Angle to 180 deg.

I'm using Visio 2013, and I was successful in doing this.

Go to "DESIGN" tab left hand corner, there is an orientation button. You can toggle back and forth from landscape and portrait here.