Text moves out of alignment with shapes on editing

[Another Dan]

Greetings!

I am updating a jillion Visio flowcharts that have been pasted previously
into Word as 'Pictures.' (Embedding the charts as Visios would have been
preferable but this increased the Word file size unacceptably.)

The pictures can be edited within Word, but the text instantly moves (down)
out of alignment with the flowchart shapes. Undo! Undo!

I have less problem copying the pictures into Visio, ungrouping the
elements, and making the needed changes. Unfortunately, the text
systematically moves (right) out of alignment as soon as the image is
ungrouped, and this is laborious to correct.

Naturally, I wonder if there is another way. If there were a way to quickly
select only the text elements and scootch them over en masse, that would be
an adequate remedy.

I'm sure you have a more elegant solution! Many thanks in advance!
A.D.

Visio 2003, Word 2002, XP

 

[Another Dan]

That bad, eh?

*Sigh*

 

[Paul Herber]

I don't recall having seen your original post. Anyway, not quite sure
what you mean by pasting into Word as pictures. You can't mean an
image tupe such as JPEG or GIF because then they can't be edited.
I've just tried creatinga Visio flowcahart within Word and it all
looks fine.
I'm wondering whether maybe you have a different default printer set
for Visio and Word ( digging at straws ).

 

[Another Dan]

Hi Paul,

Thank you for your reply!

I was referring to the "Picture" format offered in Word as a selection under
the Edit > Paste Special menu. The dialog box describes it as being of better
quality than bitmap, and smaller and faster to display.

This was the route taken to place large numbers of Visio diagrams into the
Word document, since embedding them caused the Word file size to rocket. This
is not very satisfactory, particularly since the original Visios were not
saved, and are not available when it comes time to update them.

Still, the pictures can be pasted from Word into a blank Visio document,
ungrouped and edited. This beats re-constructing them from scratch in Visio,
but the dis-alignment of the text elements from their respective flowchart
shapes (which occurs when the picture is ungrouped) makes the process
laborious; a minor edit to one or two text elements comes at the cost of
repositioning all of them.

If there is an alternative approach that would allow a load of Visios to be
embedded in Word without catastrophic file bloat, that would be of
considerable interest. In the meantime, if there is a clever way to persuade
Visio not to reposition the text bits in MS "Pictures" it would truly be a
saving grace. (As mentioned, the pictures can be altered within Word, but
just opening them for editing trashes them to an alarming degree...)

Same default printer in use for both programs.

Many thanks for your assistance...
A.D.

 

[Paul Herber]

I'm not quite sure what to make of what you are doing, Dan.