Hello,
I'm using Visio 2003. I cannot drag a shape from the shapes Windows unto the
drawing. However I can copy and paste it there. But once it's there, I can
only resize it but not drag it anywhere. Any ideas? Seems like there is a
protection or shape lock somewhere. I've been through all the menus and
couldn't figure it out.
Thanks in advance.

On Tue, 13 May 2008 13:57:02 -0700, Ju-Man
<JuMan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>I'm using Visio 2003. I cannot drag a shape from the shapes Windows unto the
>drawing. However I can copy and paste it there. But once it's there, I can
>only resize it but not drag it anywhere. Any ideas? Seems like there is a
>protection or shape lock somewhere. I've been through all the menus and
>couldn't figure it out.
>Thanks in advance.

Does this happen in other programs as well? What about selecting a
block of text with the mouse, does that work? Does any other drag and
drop operation have problems?
I'm presuming that this is a new installation of Visio.

a. Check that you have the latest video drivers for your machine.
b. Reduce any hardware acceleration - Control Panel -> Display


--
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
Electrical for Visio http://www.electrical.sandrila.co.uk/

check help file for "protection"

select object and either right click, find protection in sub-menu or go to
menu at top of screen to find it


"Ju-Man" <JuMan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:19B85E92-8B6D-4DCD-8A67-8EC7326EA096@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
> I'm using Visio 2003. I cannot drag a shape from the shapes Windows unto
> the
> drawing. However I can copy and paste it there. But once it's there, I can
> only resize it but not drag it anywhere. Any ideas? Seems like there is a
> protection or shape lock somewhere. I've been through all the menus and
> couldn't figure it out.
> Thanks in advance.

On Fri, 16 May 2008 09:47:13 -0400, "Doug.S" <ds-mail@comcast.net>
wrote:

>check help file for "protection"
>
>select object and either right click, find protection in sub-menu or go to
>menu at top of screen to find it

But that would only affect the shape once it was on the diagram.



--
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
Electrical for Visio http://www.electrical.sandrila.co.uk/

On 16 mei, 20:59, Paul Herber <SubstituteMyFirstNameH...@pherber.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 09:47:13 -0400, "Doug.S" <ds-m...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> >check help file for "protection"
>
> >select object and either right click, find protection in sub-menu or go to
> >menu at top of screen to find it
>
> But that would only affect the shape once it was on the diagram.
>
> --
> Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
> Electrical forVisio* * * * *http://www.electrical.sandrila.co.uk/

I had the same problem. I cannot drag and drop objects in Visio. I can
however copy paste or resize them. I can also move the object with the
cursos. However I found out that I also could not move my desktop
icons anymore. Logout - login did not work but a reboot did the job
for me.