Rotating a linked Visio Object in Word

[Ganeth]

The situation

I have a Visio drawing with six pages of complex flow charts, which I have embedded into a very large Word doc. This word Doc is generated programmatically from a host of smaller docs. It will be frequently updated and re-generated.

Problem the first: the word doc is in portrait orientation, and the Visio drawing is of a necessity in landscape
Problem the second: The word doc is mirror-margined, and variants with differing numbers of pages are generated for different client groups. This means that placing the visio drawings inside landscape sections of the word doc necessitates manually adjusting the margins for each page so that the word doc will print properly as a booklet.

This makes the frequent updates a time consuming exercise which has to be done manually, and I would greatly prefer it to be done programmatically. Being able to rotate the embedded visio objects by 90 degrees, thus enabling me to insert them into the main word doc with a minimum of fuss and still preserve the mirror margins throughout the document, would be an absolute boon

Word 2000 only allows rotation of certain objects, though, and apparently Visio objects are not among them. I would prefer not to have to learn VBA for Visio in order to accomplish this, so if anyone knows how I can implement a Word based solution, I would just love to know

(Apologies for posting this in the Visio forum beforehand - it's now disappeared from the forum there, though, so now I'm trying here.

Ganeth

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Wouldn't it be much easier to rotate the flow charts in Visio, and then pull them into your Word file?

 

[Ganeth]

Manual rotation is what I'm having to do at the moment - and is muchos complex due to the complexity of the drawings and the number of shapes that need to be re-positioned - I'm having to save the pages as GIFs and rotate them that way. Converting the visio drawing layout from landscape to portrait is not possible as the design has been agreed and finalised with the client group

In short, I'd love to do that, but Visio isn't Photoshop (you can't just rotate an image without completely ruining the layout)

Thanks though

G