Prevent Visio wall re-sizing -- extrordinary frustration

[IT Guy]

I was a mechanical engineer in college and used AutoCAD heavily and loved it.
10 years later I'm trying to do a SIMPLE diagram of a single room in Visio
2007. I'm PULLING MY HAIR OUT.

Basically what is happening is that interior/exterior walls that I setup are
automagically resizing based on snapping to other walls. I even give a wall a
specific length, say, 10' and drag another wall near it and bam...it
lengthens. I find this behavior extremely frustrating and idiotic. If I tell
it a wall is 10', what on earth possessed the developers to think I want them
to make it longer without asking me?

How can I turn on this very poor behavior? I'm ready to strangle whoever
thought this idea was good when doing architectural floorplans.

Help!

[David Parker]

Whilst agreeing that it can be frustrating, I don't think that murder is the
answer.
Have you tried right mouse click, Format / Protection, then checking Width ?
The walls are 1D shapes in Visio, so the Height is probably what you think
of as Width, and Width is probably what you think of as Length.

Post by IT Guy
I was a mechanical engineer in college and used AutoCAD heavily and loved it.
10 years later I'm trying to do a SIMPLE diagram of a single room in Visio
2007. I'm PULLING MY HAIR OUT.
Basically what is happening is that interior/exterior walls that I setup are
automagically resizing based on snapping to other walls. I even give a wall a
specific length, say, 10' and drag another wall near it and bam...it
lengthens. I find this behavior extremely frustrating and idiotic. If I tell
it a wall is 10', what on earth possessed the developers to think I want them
to make it longer without asking me?
How can I turn on this very poor behavior? I'm ready to strangle whoever
thought this idea was good when doing architectural floorplans.
Help!