Unwanted white space when pasting object from Visio

[bufossil]

I am using Word 2003 SP2, Visio 2003 SP2, and Windows XP SP2.

I have a series of full page landscape drawings I must copy and paste
(embed) into Word. The first five embedded Visio objects pasted just fine.
The sixth one pastes into Word with 1.5" white space on the right hand side.

In Visio, the drawing takes up the full landscape page just like the other
drawings that pasted in correctly. If you perform Ctrl+A to select the whole
drawing, the boundaries of the drawing appear to be confined to the page just
like the other drawings. When you select the pasted drawing in Word, it
appears that the boundaries of the drawing itself extend 1.5" to the right of
the drawing.

Anyone have any ideas about what is happening?

Thanks for your help.

Tim Munyon

 

[bufossil]

I think the origin of the problem was in Visio (even though the graphic took
up one full landscape page with no white space to the right).

However, to fix the problem, I right-clicked the graphics in Word, selected
Visio Object > Edit, and simply dragged the right hand margin back to the
graphic to eliminate the white space.

Good luck!

 

[JoeThisIsMyUniqueName]

bufossil's answer helped. I didn't see any margin-resizing capabilities though, but you can resize the whole object, and that seems to also resize the margins.

 

[JoeThisIsMyUniqueName]

I suspect the issue is with visio and not with word. In visio standard 2019, when I click Design / Size / Fit to Drawing, the canvas is resized and seems to leave the same large empty spaces that I saw in word; it seems Fit to Drawing is what is used when copy and paste is performed in word. You can resize your canvas manually to fix (using Design / Size / More Page Sizes, or Ctrl + drag the canvas) in visio, then export your visio drawing as an svg file (Scalable Vector Graphics), and then do Insert / Pictures / This Device in word and point to your svg file. You'll likely want to remove the margins from your visio drawing too before you resize the canvas (Developer tab / Show ShapeSheet / Page / Page[Left|Right|Top|Bottom]Margin / set to zero), search for how to show the Developer tab if it's not shown. This worked perfectly for me; the object did not have large empty space, and the fonts were properly maintained.