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Is there a way to embed links in a Word document to individual objects
(drawings) in a Visio document?
I need to write a large tutorial in Word. It will include hundreds of
line art drawings -- as many as 7-8/page. Most of them are the full
width of the page, but only an inch tall. Some pages will be mostly
drawings with a few lines of text between them.
I am creating the drawings in Visio. The Visio document already
contains dozens of individual drawings (objects).
I need a way to embed the individual objects (not the entire Visio
document) from the Visio document into the Word document as "links" so
that the actual object is not embedded.
Up to now, I have been using cut-and-paste to get the drawings into
the Word document. This works, but it is not so good. It makes the
Word document huge (over 8MB and growing fast), which means it takes
forever to load and save. It also means that I have to redo the cut
and paste whenever I change the original objects over in Visio.
I would like to replace the actual drawing objects in the Word
document with "links" to the individual objects in Visio. This should
dramatically cut down on the size from about 200KB for each object to
just a few bytes and it should allow me to update the drawings in
Visio without having to repaste them into Word.
I tried this using Paste Special with the Paste Link option. It works
as far as getting the objects into Word and if I update the object in
Visio it gets updated in Word, but the Word document still grows huge
- as if the object is still being embedded.
I currently have Windows 2000, Office 2000, and Visio 2002, but will
be upgrading to Windows XP and Office 2003 soon.
--
Running MS Office 2K Pro
with Visio 2002 Standard
PC: HP Omnibook 6000
OS: Win 2K SP-4 (5.00.2195)
Email: Usenet-20031220 at spamex.com
(11/03/04)
(drawings) in a Visio document?
I need to write a large tutorial in Word. It will include hundreds of
line art drawings -- as many as 7-8/page. Most of them are the full
width of the page, but only an inch tall. Some pages will be mostly
drawings with a few lines of text between them.
I am creating the drawings in Visio. The Visio document already
contains dozens of individual drawings (objects).
I need a way to embed the individual objects (not the entire Visio
document) from the Visio document into the Word document as "links" so
that the actual object is not embedded.
Up to now, I have been using cut-and-paste to get the drawings into
the Word document. This works, but it is not so good. It makes the
Word document huge (over 8MB and growing fast), which means it takes
forever to load and save. It also means that I have to redo the cut
and paste whenever I change the original objects over in Visio.
I would like to replace the actual drawing objects in the Word
document with "links" to the individual objects in Visio. This should
dramatically cut down on the size from about 200KB for each object to
just a few bytes and it should allow me to update the drawings in
Visio without having to repaste them into Word.
I tried this using Paste Special with the Paste Link option. It works
as far as getting the objects into Word and if I update the object in
Visio it gets updated in Word, but the Word document still grows huge
- as if the object is still being embedded.
I currently have Windows 2000, Office 2000, and Visio 2002, but will
be upgrading to Windows XP and Office 2003 soon.
--
Running MS Office 2K Pro
with Visio 2002 Standard
PC: HP Omnibook 6000
OS: Win 2K SP-4 (5.00.2195)
Email: Usenet-20031220 at spamex.com
(11/03/04)