Visio menu bar missing plan

The Plan tab is template-dependent; for a Room shape placed in a Basic Diagram or blank drawing, control persistent measurements from the Room shape’s own settings rather than expecting the Plan tab to appear.

Hide dimensions on the Room shape

1. Select the Room shape.
2. Right-click it and open Properties, Shape Data, or the available room/wall options.
3. Look for Show Dimensions, Display Dimensions, or a similarly named setting and turn it off.
4. Click away from the room. The dimensions should disappear and return only as selection feedback when the room is selected.

Microsoft’s dimension guidance does not document a universal Plan > Hide Dimensions command for Room shapes; this display can be defined by the particular floor-plan master shape instead.^1^

If Shape Data is not visible, open it from:

View > Task Panes > Shape Data

Shape Data contains properties associated with the selected shape, including Boolean choices where supplied by that shape’s master.^2^

Why Plan appears only in some drawings

Plan is a contextual tab installed or activated by particular plan templates and their solution features. It is not a standard tab for every Visio drawing. For example, Microsoft documents Plan > Display Options > Spaces specifically for drawings created with the Space Plan template.^3^

Therefore:

• Floor Plan/Space Plan drawing: use the Plan tab when its display controls apply to the selected plan shapes.
• Basic Diagram or blank drawing: use the Room shape’s right-click or Shape Data options.
• Adding a Room stencil to a Basic Diagram does not necessarily add all template-specific ribbon commands.

For a drawing that needs the complete floor-plan environment, create it from:

File > New > Maps and Floor Plans > Floor Plan > Create

Then copy existing content into that drawing. The Floor Plan template supplies the scaled page and relevant building-plan stencils.^4^

If no Show Dimensions property exists

Determine which kind of measurement is present:

• Separate dimension lines: Select the dimension object itself and delete it, or hide its layer. Dimension lines are separate shapes glued to the measured object.^5^
• Width × height inside the Room text: Double-click the Room. If the values become selectable fields, select and delete those fields. Visio supports width and height fields embedded directly in a shape’s text block.^6^
• Temporary measurements while selected or resized: These are normal selection feedback. Visio also reports selected-shape width, height, and angle in the status area; they are not printed dimension objects.^1^

If none of these matches, the exact command depends on the Room master being used. Check the stencil name and the shape’s right-click menu; a screenshot of those items would distinguish a Room shape option from an embedded field or separate dimension shape.

References

1. Show size or dimensions of shapes in Visio | Microsoft Support
2. Shape Data Section
3. Create a space plan
4. Create a floor plan
5. Video: Show shape size or dimensions | Microsoft Support
6. Insert height and width dimension fields into a shape | Microsoft Support