Passing Visio drawings to Excel

[Katelyn]

I am working in an environment where I am creating documents using Visio
2007. The problem is that not many people in the office have Visio, but they
need to be able to edit the documents every so often.

I want to know if I can embed the Visio 2007 drawing into an Excel 2003
document with limited editing capabilities - such as entering text or
inserting shapes/pictures.

The goal is for someone with Visio to create the document, embed it in an
Excel file, and send it out. The recipient (who does not have Visio) needs
to be able to fill in information in that document and save the changes.

Is this even possible for someone without Visio? Is there an easy way to do
it, or do I need to write a macro?

Any insight is greatly appreciated.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

There is a free Visio viewer available but you can't edit the file. I think
the only way you're going to achieve what you want is to buy Visio licenses.