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Subject:Re: Lots of figures and diagrams From:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:Tanya Spackman <tspack -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Tue, 31 May 2011 13:57:39 -0700
If you embed your diagrams as objects rather than pictures they will
be editable in place as long as you have the editing SW on your
system. This includes Visio files.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Tanya Spackman <tspack -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> "I find myself running into the limitations of Microsoft Word (2011 edition
> for that Mac) with respect to embedded drawings. The built-in drawing tools
> seem quite inadequate and embedding Visio diagrams that I can't edit
> in-place is frustrating. What suite of tools do you recommend for technical
> documentation that includes quantities of embedded figures and diagrams?"
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