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Subject:Re: Visio and Word97 From:Janet Valade <janetv -at- MAIL -dot- SYSTECH -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 8 Oct 1998 17:57:38 -0700
> I have tried saving ("exporting") the drawings as windows metafiles,
> .eps, .tif, and then inserting the picture into the doc as well as
> cutting and pasting (CTRL+A, CTRL+C,CTRL+V).
>
I do this regularly and it works okay. If I save the drawing first
and insert it from outside, I save the file as wmf and then insert>picture.
You should be able to insert it directly from the visio file using
insert>object>create from file. I have a pretty new version of Visio.
Janet
Janet Valade
Technical Writer
Systech Corp, San Diego, CA mailto:janetv -at- systech -dot- com
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