How can I rotate swimlanes in Visio 2013 once the diagram is completed? That is, how do I switch swimlanes from horizontal orientation to vertical, or from vertical to horizontal?
Here's an example diagram:
For a new diagram, I know that swimlanes can be easily rotated with Cross-functional flowchart | Arrange | Orientation.
The problem is when you have finished a diagram (e.g. a BPMN diagram) that has many objects contained within the swimlanes. When you rotate the swimlane orientation, the objects contained are not easily rotated–the result is quite a mess that you have to clean up:
In short:
- I begin with a complete horizontal BPMN diagram in Visio 2013.
- I rotate it with Ctrl-A (select all) | Cross-functional flowchart | Arrange | Orientation | Vertical
The result is not the automatic vertical rotation that would be expected; it is rather messy.
Is there a way to get a clean, [mostly] automatic rotation?
Best Answer
I just had this experience as well, the solution, if you haven't found it already, is to mark the swimlanes, go to the coss-functional flowchart tab and click choose the orientation button. That did the trick for me, Good luck!