Hyperlinks into VISIO page

[CIMpleBS]

While it is possible to link from one visio document shape to another visio
file, specific page, I am unable to find or determine (based on testing) the
html syntax for connecting from a hyperlink in a different kind of document
(like a word or excel file) to a specific page. The default seems to be open
to whatever page was last saved. Does anyone know the proper tag for creating
this link? #bookmark works for all other microsoft products, but doesn't seem
to work for VISIO? Thank you.
(and yes, I have already read all the topics in all groups and find no
answer - this is the third hour in last year I have had a need to figure this
out, and gave up the other two times).

 

[Chris Roth [ Visio MVP ]]

does #bookmark if you enter it in the sub-address?

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

 

[CIMpleBS]

Using Visio 2002 SR-1 and IE 6.0 linking from inside another visio file
putting the page name in the subaddress works fine by using the Browse button
(I don't know what it is inserting in the actual xml or html link, which is
the key). The subaddress browse feature does not come up in WORD when
accessing a visio file through hyperlink insertion, for some reason. The
problem is I can't find the actual tag syntax. If the visio is saved as html,
the HTML hyperlink reverts to defaulting to opening the linked file based on
last save, not the desired page. If I add the pagename to the html tag <A
href="filename.vsd#pagename>Linkname</A>, the link doesn't find the file at
all. This is the proper and effective format for linking to bookmarks in
other microsoft applications. If I remove the #pagename, again I get the file
but opens to the page as saved. I know it's possible or it wouldn't work from
visio to visio, but I can't get the proper tag command (unless it is an IE
problem?). Each visio file contains many layers (pages) of elaboration, and
it's not practical to break them into separate files for navigation purposes
due to version controls on these critical data flow diagrams, which are
providing requirements documentation for large software development projects.
Any additional insights would be greatly appreciated. I'm confused as there
are many referencecs related to visio hyperlinks on the web, but all of them
are related to links out of visio while none relate to links into visio
documents except from other visio documents! Unidirectional navigation is
useless. Thanks for the quick response.