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Subject:Re: Getting a Visio drawing into a Word document From:Erica Bruce <ericalbruce -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:26:28 -0400
The way I've done it is to save the Visio drawing as a Windows
Metafile. I then open the Word doc and do Insert--> Picture-->From
File and choose the Visio file. You can't alter the Visio picture in
teh Word doc itself...if you want to, you have to go back into Visio,
alter it, and go through the process again.
Hope this helps-
Elizabeth wrote:
On 7/13/05, Elizabeth O'Shea <elizabeth -dot- oshea -at- virtualaccess -dot- com> wrote:
>
> I have a diagram that was created in Visio 2002. It's a mix of text, jpgs of
> our products, and Visio shapes. I need to put it in a Word document (also
> 2002).
>
> Word does not want to let me insert the .vsd (either as a picture or a
> file). When I save the .vsd as something else (jpg, eps, gif), the image is
> fine in thumbnails in Windows Explorer. It's fine when I open the eps in
> Illustrator. But when I put import the image into Word, everything drops out
> except for three lines of text. All the other text drops out, all the Visio
> shapes, all the jpgs of our products.
>
> Does anyone know what's going wrong?
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Erica L. Bruce
Technical Writer/Documentation Specialist II
Harris Orkand Information Services
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