Best way to copy/paste Word document into Visio Text box?

[Dennis]

Using Visio 2003 Pro & Office 2003

Text editing is much easier in Word.

But when I copy/paste the completed Word Text into an expandible-sized
Vision Text box - the copied material exceeds the size of the text box.

Currently, I manually delete the Word carrage returns line by line then
re-establish the carrage returns within the Visio text box.

It works - but is time intensive and waisting.

How can one do this smarter?

I envision a macro that can read a Word file, strip all control
characters, and lay the information properly within the Visio text box.

It would be fine, to have to insert a value into the VBA code for the
length of each line string-length that would fit the current text box
size. (If I re-sized the textbox, I would have to ascertain an updated
length for Visio to insert a carrage return.

Is this making any sense?

Dennis

 

[David Parker [Visio MVP]]

Ther is no need to insert the text into a shape. Just copy the words in
Wird and then paste directly into a Visio page.
Then resize the text shape to suit.