Copy Drawing

[Pemo]

In earlier versions of Visio, if one needed to copy a drawing that included
a background page, one simply selected Edit | Copy Drawing. On pasting
into Word or another Visio drawing (same page size and setup) it would copy
perfectly.

Visio 2000, however pastes the contents foreground and background page
misaligned with each other. A crude and agricultural workaround is to place
a full-page transparent box around the foreground page content.

Is this a glitch in Visio 2000 or am I missing something?

TIA

Pemo

 

[Pemo]

Hi Lori,

Yes, I've boxed identically both foreground and background(s). Anyway -
forget Word - keep it to Visio.

Here is a simple try-out: New drawing, blank pages. Foreground Page-1 uses
(visible) background Backgnd.
On Backgnd, draw constrained unfilled square of 30mm sides
On Page-1, draw constrained unfilled circle of 30mm diameter, precisely
coinciding with the Backgnd square.
Save. Edit | Copy Drawing. Open new drawing (same page size & other
defaults of course)
Edit | Paste Special | Visio Drawing

The foreground circle is there but the Backgnd square is not. (it is
probably misaligned so as to be off-screen and orbiting Pluto)

Now put an unfilled rectangle covering the page an both Backgnd and Page-1,
exactly coinciding in position.

Repeat Copy Drawing and Paste Special as before.

Now we have both Backgnd and Page-1 contents "almost aligned" - but not
quite right.

As I said - earlier versions (eg pre-MS version 4.1 Technical) of Visio did
this perfectly.

Pemo