John,
Thanks for the response. I'll try this. I thought I did that when I set
the formats of each component before grouping. One shape I fixed the height
and the width, the other shape I made 1-D. Maybe I should make the first
shape 1-D also?

Still messing with it. I wish it was a bit more intuitive. Looks like I am
getting mo better with it and may have to spring for some classes to refine
my knowledge. I'll see how this works.

Bill


"John... Visio MVP" wrote:

"beradio1" wrote in message
...
I've searched for this, so I may not be asking the "right" question in the
search box.

I've created, for simplicity, two shapes. I position them where I want
and
then group them together to make a new shape. My issue is when I resize
the
whole shape, the smaller piece changes size too. I do NOT want that to
happen. The overall width of the shape must stay the same while allowing
the
length to change. The smaller shape that makes up the whole shape MUST
stay
the same no matter what. How can I do this?

I've tried formatting the little shape so the height and width are
protected. I even protected the shape "from group formatting". No luck.
I
looked at behaviors but do not see anything that helps.

Thanks for any insight.

Bill

The problem is that when you grouped the shapes, each shapes formula is
changed to be a percentage of the group shapes width and height. You can
prevent this, but you must set the ResizeMode in the component shapes BEFORE
grouping. Otherwise you have to open the spreadsheet, set the View to Value
and copy and past the displayed value in the cell and paste that value into
the formula bar at the top of the page.

John... Visio MVP