Adding a visio image to MSWord, the file grows exponentially, why

[ezrun481]

When I select a tab in a Visio file that I created and copy the page into a
Word 2003 file, the Word file grows by the entire size of the Visio file. I
am not inserting the entire Visio file only a single tab/page, why would the
Word file grow so much from the insertion?

Is there a better way to insert graphics from Visio into Word without
creating 50+ MB files?

Example: Visio file is 7MB with 7 pages/tabs.
When these pages are added individually to different sections of the word
document you end up with a document that is 50+ MB in size. This doesn't make
any sense.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

 

[Jezebel]

If you're copying and pasting directly from Visio into Word, you're not
pasting a graphic but a Visio *object* -- including all the supporting
information needed to activate the object. If you do it multiple times, you
are adding a vast amount of superfluous information to your document.

Export the graphic to a graphic file (GIF, JPG, or whatever); then import
that into Word.