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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Linking multiple Visio pages into Word

I posted this question on AusDotNet the other day. I have reposted it here in case it may help someone...



At the risk of sounding like I am using Word for the first time today, how does one insert a DDE link from Word (aka Insert Object, Create From File,  Link to File) to the second or third page of a Visio document?  I can get the first page in just using the standard Link to File, but how do you tell it to link to the second page?



I have attempted to edit the links in Word where you can change the location of the source document and can even specify an "Item" in the source. I have entered the name  of the page in question but that did not work. It seems to be very Excel specific.

I have also attempted to split the Visio into multiple documents but since I am editing UML diagrams I then lose the automatic update of other diagrams when a shared class is edited – not good.

I have attempted to define a named range in Visio (just like you do in Excel) but it does not exist in Visio.

I am using Office 2007.


 

The answer is simple but like some parts of Visio it is totally different to the rest of Office. In Visio, select Edit->Copy drawing and then in Word, select Paste-Paste Special->Paste Link. The Copy drawing feature does not appear to be in any other Office program. The DDE does not look like it is supported.

Thanks Ken!

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