Status Bar in Visio

Left hand side of the Visio status bar

On the left side of the bar is the message box area that gives you information about the position, width, height, angle, length etc. of an object, with seven different customizable sets of information depending on where you are in the program.

Right hand side of the Visio status bar

In the right corner of the bar is the status box area, which lets you know what action will be performed by the cursor when the mouse is clicked.

The status box indicates what is happening in the current operation

The status box provides information on the operation curently underway. It shows in words what the control handles show by color. The page box shows two numbers separated by a slash. The first is the number of the page currently displayed. The second is the number of pages in the drawing.

Complete Visio status bar (broken for convenience)

With a shape selected, clicking anywhere in the left hand message box displays the Size & Position dialog. This dialog enables you to set size and position values for the selected object numerically, and therefore with complete precision. The dialog display varies with respect to the shape and its nature.

The Visio Basics tutorial is based on training material devised, created and delivered by Visimation.