How to Lock and Unlock Layer in Visio?

In this article, we will learn how we can unlock our layer in Visio. Why did someone lock a layer in Visio? Why do we unlock a layer in Visio? The answer to the above question is that if we are working with our complex flowchart or any other project in Visio then our purpose is to protect our work. If someone doesn't know how to use Visio. Then he/she can make difficulties for us. That's is why we lock our layer in Visio. We unlock the layer in Visio so that we can edit, and make changes in our flowchart in Visio.

In this article, we will unlock our locked layer in Visio. We are using the latest version of Microsoft Visio. If you want to buy the monthly subscription of Microsoft Visio then you can Buy Microsoft Visio.

In the following flowchart we can see there are a few shapes along with connectors with the line, and arrowheads on them. But we can not change either the text or connectors in our flowchart.

Now, we will see its properties in Layers.

Let's get started:

In the Home tab then Editing. In editing, we can see Layers. Also, we can see a small arrow on the downside that shows more options.

Now, we will click on the Layer then two options will appear.

Layers

1. Assign to Layer
2. Layer Properties

We will follow the Layer Properties then a new dialogue box will be open. As we can see in the following screenshot.

 Layer Properties:

We can see that there are Connector and the flowchart. Also, we can see that there is a Lock option and for now this Lock check box is checked that is why our layer looks and we can't perform any changes in our flowchart.

If we have to perform any modification then we have to uncheck this box then we can perform any changes to our flowchart.

We are going to uncheck this box then see what will happen to our flowchart in Visio.

Now, we can see that the check box is unchecked for now we will turn to our flowchart.

Now, we are going to edit our flowchart. We can see a text box is selected but when all layers we looked then we can't edit our flowchart or select our flowchart.

In this way, we can edit our flowchart in Visio by unlocking our layer in Visio. On the other hand, we learn how we can look and unlock our layer in Visio.