Coying to a Word document

[Conor Grogan]

When copping a box with dashed lines from visio to word the lines do not appear dashed unless I paste it as a Device Independant Bitmap. I do not want to do this because the quality of the picture diminishes. Is there another way to keep the dashed lines outlining the box? Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Chris Roth]

Hmm. When I paste a Visio object, the dashes look okay (Visio 2003, Word
2003)

Have you tried Paste Special > Windows Metafile or Enhanced metafile?

These are vector formats and should print much better than bitmaps, but
disassociate the paste from Visio data.

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

When copping a box with dashed lines from visio to word the lines do not

appear dashed unless I paste it as a Device Independant Bitmap. I do not
want to do this because the quality of the picture diminishes. Is there
another way to keep the dashed lines outlining the box? Any help would be
much appreciated.

 

[Al Edlund]

Chris,
I vaguely remember a thread (possibly last year) when something like this
was brought up and it was 'by design' in visio. As always us old guys may
have gotten it wrong with our memory. Sounds like you guys made it home o.k.
Al

 

[Jay]

When copping a box with dashed lines from visio to word the lines do
not appear dashed unless I paste it as a Device Independant Bitmap. I
do not want to do this because the quality of the picture diminishes.
Is there another way to keep the dashed lines outlining the box? Any
help would be much appreciated.

A different approach might get a better result.

Rather than copy/paste, I've had better luck in Word using
Insert >> Object >> Create from file
and browsing to find a Visio file to insert. This way gives a more accurate
rendering of the drawing than other ways I've tried. If you really want to
copy just individual shapes, though, this would not work for you.

 

[Randall Arnold]

Every option I've tried copying from Visio 2002 Enterprise to Word 2003
produces solid copies from a dashed original. Eek!

Randall Arnold