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Onward and upward, right friends? Well we have some stuff done so far, and by stuff that's the technical term for the basic outer structure of our floor plan. So why don't we select some of the other stencils here and get busy. In building core we have bathroom and landing and stairwell shapes. That's quite fine in many cases. However, I'm just looking for some internal kind of stuff, and we're not finding that. So why don't we open the Shapes tool, come down to Maps And Floor Plans, open the Building Plan stencil and let's see what we have here. Let's scroll down, and why don't we select Office Equipment US Units. You should see that there's a plethora really of different stencils here that we can make use of. Well that's nice as far as that goes. Why don't we look for some furniture, really? Back down to Maps and Floor Plans, back to Building Plans, and let's bring out Furniture US Units, and we can do whatever we want here. Let's see there's desks, there's plants, there's tables. So we could have, say, a square table in this room. I have to resize it quite a bit. We could put in, this isn't really office equipment as such, but could throw in a sofa if this were a lounge, and it'd have to be a pretty small sofa. You see that I'm resizing it dynamically. Bring in a plant. See if there's any other shapes that might come in handy here. Maps and Floor Plans, Building Plans, Office accessories, how's that? Coat rack, waste paper basket, nothing too dramatic here, and I'm not too happy with this shape in this room. But I'm just doing this, again, to give you the general feel for how constructing an office plan or a floor plan layout works. We know how the dimensions work, we know how the guide works, and you see that we have set display options. And the display options dialog box gives us some flexibility here in terms of what we're displaying with walls, with window shapes, with our spaces when we bring out those space shapes, and then finally what display components are shown by default. So that's all well and good. As far as finishing this thing out goes, you know what my rule is so far. We'll traditionally go to the Shapes, down to Visio Extras, bring out a background. Boy we have a lot of stencils open here, don't we? Why don't we choose background clouds, and we'll also come up to Shapes down to Visio Extras, and let's bring out some borders and titles, we'll bring out the contemporary one. And let's back our zoom up to the page level. Yikes, this is not working too well. Tell you what, remember how we can select our entire drawing and then resize. But you want to be careful with that, because remember that in a floor plan diagram, you're typically working to scale. So this looks really great, but remember that as far as the grand scale goes, this room is fairly small. I think it's 10 feet by 10 feet for this main room here, and 6 feet by 6 feet or so for this small room. This isn't a particularly large office, not by any stretch of the imagination. But again, I just want you to have the general idea how a floor plan layout works in Visio 2007, and I think you do have that idea. Final point I want to make is just a reminder that if you're wondering what are about all these blue X's, or these blue they look like stars on my monitor. Remember those are simply our connection points, and we can open the View menu to hide those at any point. But even if we're not hiding our connection points, when we do a print preview and go to print the document, it's going to print without those connection points visible anyway by default. So don't worry about that one bit.