Visio2000: Sample Macro to Set a Drawing Page to Landscape Orientation (286217)

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Sample Macro

Visio does not have a built-in method to set a page's orientation to landscape. To work around this limitation, switch the page width and page height of the page's ShapeSheet cells.

The following sample Visual Basic macro uses the PageSheet property of the Page object to switch the values:

Public Sub PageLandscape()

   ' Create two variables to hold the original cell values.
   Dim PageOriginalWidth As Single
   Dim PageOriginalHeight As Single

   ' Create and get a reference to the PageSheet of the page to be altered.
   ' NOTE: An error will occur if the ShapeSheet/PageSheet is the
   ' active window.
   Dim visPageSheet As Visio.Shape

   Set visPageSheet = ActivePage.PageSheet

   ' Set the two variables equal to the original cell values.
   PageOriginalWidth = visPageSheet.Cells("PageWidth")
   PageOriginalHeight = visPageSheet.Cells("PageHeight")

   ' Switch the values in the page's cells.
   ActivePage.PageSheet.Cells("PageWidth") = PageOriginalHeight
   ActivePage.PageSheet.Cells("PageHeight") = PageOriginalWidth

   ' Set the printer orientation to landscape if needed.
   ActiveDocument.PrintLandscape = True

End Sub