Title Block

Meaning

The Title Block is used to add meta information about the diagram.

Utilization

General Notes

When you drag a Title Block onto a diagram, it will create another page called "Background" and make it the background page for the current diagram page. The title block will be visible on both the diagram and the background page, but will be editable only on the background page. See Hints for detailed information.
You can change the text of all fields, but it is likely to modify the contents only of the fields which are prefilled with "<< ... >>".
The first mouse-click inside the Title Block activates a single field.
A second click (on the same spot as the first click) will activate the grid of the Title Block and the control points for resizing the widths of the fields.
You can not change the heigth of the Title Block and it's fields.
Because the title block has a minimum width, you can use this shape for page sizes from DIN A4 on upwards.

Control Points

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Moves the position of the vertical line. The same applies to the other control points shown in the example above.
The width of the fields is constrained by the width of their text.

The picture can be positioned and resized freely inside the logo field.
It is not possible to drag it outside the borders.

Context Menu

The context menu is different for the single fields. It enables you to automatically fill out the fields.

Prepared and checked date:

Prefill Date - Fills the field with the current date.

Logo:

		Insert Picture - Opens a file dialog to select a picture for the logo field. You can choose among all the image file types for which Visio has an import filter. The picture will be proportionally resized to fit into the field.
		Delete Picture - Deletes the picture.
		Make Proportional - This will restore the original size of the image after inserting.
		Stretch - Stretches the image both vertically and horizontally to fill out the complete logo field.

Note: If you select the logo field, the context menu will always have the entry Insert Picture. The context menu of the picture does not have this entry.

Author, checker, project, description, copyright:

Prefill <field> - Fills the corresponding field with the value found in the document properties (Visio: File -> Document Properties).
The following table shows the mapping:

Field	Document Properties
Author	Author
Checker	Manager
Project	Subject
Description	Description
Copyright	Company

If you right-click anywhere on the background page, you will also get a context menu for the title box itself.

Title box:

Hide the Title Box - Hides or shows the title box. It disappears on both the diagram and the background page.

Hints

Background page

When you insert a Title Block onto a page, another page called "Background" will be created. The title block will be visible on both the diagram and the background page, but will be editable only on the background page.


		In Visio each normal page can be assigned a background page. The objects on the background page will be shown behind the objects on the diagram. To choose or delete a background page you have to select the normal diagram page and then go to File -> Page Setup... -> Page Properties. You can choose if a page is a Foreground (normal) or a Background page. Background pages will show up in the drop down list Background, where you can choose the page which acts as background for the current page. When you want to delete a background page, first choose "None" for each normal page using that page as background. Then you can delete the page without Visio blocking it.