Just wanted to say thanks for all the useful Visio tips here. I’ve been using Visio for years and living with a load of frustrations….. only to find out the solutions were there if only I’d RTFM. Anyway, reading all this has been very useful and will save me hours in future. Thanks!

I got it. Thanks, will update the article soonish.

Hey, you can’t know everything and this blog is one way of asking for help. Will update in the next day or so.

What you need is the “Text Block Tool”. I’m not aware of a way to access it from the menus or context menu (right click) but in my installation you can find it by clicking the small down arrow next to the “A” (Text Tool) towards the right hand end of the Standard tool bar. You should see an A with an arrow around it labelled “Text Block Tool”. Select that.

You can then select an object and the associated text will have it’s own green dotted box appear. This allows you to move, resize and orientate the text independently of the ‘parent’ object. I find this very useful to avoid the word-wrap issue you describe, making text appear horizontal on a slightly angled line and making text appear above/below/beside an object.

It can also help with the problem you describe in Net≠work Dia≠grams: Labelling an VLAN/?IP Segment.

It’s a shame one can’t attach pictures to comments – it would be easier to explain this with a single pic.