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To see how we work with pages, let us have a look at a network diagram. I will start up a new one using New>Choose Drawing Type. We're in the network diagram section, and I will select a basic network template. And here we come up with, what we can see here is a page. Now Visio automatically formats the page according to what would normally be best for the type of diagram we are working with. So here we've got a landscape orientation page. You can of course go in and change any of the page properties, and to do that you just go up to File>Page Setup, and the page setup dialog box appears. Now there is a lot of tabs there where you can make changes. You can see and set things up for print as opposed to the actual page to work differently. If we go to the page size box for example, we can set the same as the printer page size, or we can set something particular for the on screen display. In the drawing scale, if it's a diagram the scale is important; we can define all that here. And the page properties, we can work with pages as either foreground or background pages. And we will cover that further in a moment, and there's other various settings there you can make. For example setting the shadow effect, how deep a shadow would be on particular shapes, and this last tab we will cover later in the course on layout and routing. I will just cancel out of there. Now this area also around the page, we might as well mention that - that's called the pasteboard. And that can be handy just for storing shapes that might actually appear as part of our drawing. So if we're dragging shapes onto our drawing for example, and we decide we don't want one right at the moment, but we might keep it for use later, we can just move it off onto the pasteboard, and it sits there out of the way until we need it. To add additional pages, it is very easy. We go down to this page area down the bottom here and we'll right click on the tab - page 1 is the name of this particular page. Here we go, we can insert a page by selecting this option, and we come up with the page setup for that page, where we can elect to change it to a background. Let's keep it as a foreground page for the moment, and it has given the name by default page 2. We'll just go with the defaults. And here we have page 2 has come up down the bottom here. Let me just move this little divider here by clicking and dragging on it. Then we have controls here. This one sends us to the last page in the group, that to the first page. So you can see it's moved this to the beginning of the page area there. To actually view the page 1, we need to click on the tab - and page 1 comes up, page 2. Let me just add another page for you here. Tight clicking on that and going Insert Page, now we will be adding page 3, there we have it. We can scroll back across there with these buttons and select the pages. We can also reorder pages, by - let me just resize the window here, so we can get a bit more of a look at the menu. Now if I right click, I can go Reorder Pages; we get the reorder pages dialog box comes up. So say I select page 3 and I go Move Up, it moves it into the center there. We can change the name of the page or if we don't want to do that, we can take that check box off there and go off OK. So now you can see we got page 1, page 3 and page 2. To remove pages, we can go here and go Delete Page. So we are back to the first page that we started with. We can also change the size of the page by clicking and dragging. To do that, we have to click on the control key, move to the edge of the page until we get the double headed arrow, and then we can click and drag and alter the size of our page. We can also rotate a page. Let me just zoom out slightly here. Clicking control + shift together and then clicking with my right mouse. So all I need to Well in order to do that, one thing to check is that the rotation feature is enabled for the type of drawing you are working with. And to check that you go to Tools>Options, and then on the general tab here, you will see there is an option to enable page rotation. That's checked, so we're - that's going to be working for us here. I will click OK, and to rotate the page we click on the Rotation tool here, move to a corner of the drawing, click and drag and you will see we have rotated the drawing. Now the rotation point is around the (0,0) mark shown here by the rulers. Zero there and zero there - makes the rotation around that point. Now we can change that anchor point. Let me just undo the rotation. To change the anchor point or the zero point, we click control, move up into the top here till we get the four-way symbol that you see there, and then click and drag down. Now, we get those guidelines appearing, and let's say we want to change the zero point to this top left-hand corner - we just drag until we get the guides positioned where we want them, and then let go the mouse at that point, and you will see now that we have got zero points in the ruler occurring at this intersection. Now we click and drag from this corner, you will see the rotation is happening from the new zero point we have established. Let's look at background pages. We can add background pages to a drawing, so that anything we put on that background page appears on all the foreground pages to which it is attached. To show you how that works, let's add a page. And we will call it a background page. We will, if we go to Borders and Titles, and let me just select a title block here at random, we will say that's our background page. You will see it has appeared down here as a tab, as a background. We want to attach that background now to our foreground page here. I will just resize this one so it fits nicely in the window. To do that, we go File>Page Setup, and we go to page properties. And in the background drop down box here, we select background-1, that is the name of the background page, and go OK. So now you will see as well as the shapes are on page-1 itself, we are also seeing anything that is included on the background page. To confirm that we go to background, there's the background page. Go back to page-1, we see the background page as well as the foreground page. We also have the option to use background shapes here off the background stencil, and these are pre-designed backgrounds to add a bit of professional touch to the drawing. So all you need to is to drag one of those on to the foreground page required, let go of the mouse, you get this message - do you want this shape to be the background image for this page? Click yes, and we have our design now superimposed on the background. And you'll see if we click the background tab, the background page now includes our title shape, as well as the background shape from the stencil. So that concludes the beginning diagram chapter. We will move on now to the next chapter, and look at using connectors in depth.