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Visio shape losing formatting when copying diagram into Word
Whenever I attempt to copy certain Visio shapes (re-formatted to have a
dotted line and re-sized larger) into Word, the dotted line formatting is lost and Word treats it as a solid line. For example, 1) open new basic drawing 2) Drag 'square' shape from 'Basic Shapes' 3) Format/Line: set pattern to type '02' (dotted line) 4) Copy shape and paste into Word. This works correctly without any problem. However, now re-size the square to about 5 or 6 times it's original default size and copy back into Word. The line around the square is now shown as a solid line, rather than dotted as it was in Visio. In Visio have tried the 'Copy Drawing' and 'Select All/Copy'. In Word have tried 'Edit/Paste', 'Edit/Paste Special/Microsoft Visio Drawing Object' and 'Edit/Paste Special/Picture (Enhanced Metafile)' and numerous combinations of the various Visio copy and Word paste commands but all to no avail. In summary, once the shape has been re-sized larger Word treats the dotted line as if it should be solid. Any suggestions gratefully received... Word version: 11.6568.6568 SP2 (Part of Office Professional 2003) Visio version: 11.3216.6568 (Part of Office Professional 2003) |
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Visio shape losing formatting when copying diagram into Word
This is intentional in Visio. Here is a KB article with explanation and
solutions. http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=k...id=2529&sid=72 -- Mark Nelson Office Graphics - Visio Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "TechAuthor" wrote in message ... Whenever I attempt to copy certain Visio shapes (re-formatted to have a dotted line and re-sized larger) into Word, the dotted line formatting is lost and Word treats it as a solid line. For example, 1) open new basic drawing 2) Drag 'square' shape from 'Basic Shapes' 3) Format/Line: set pattern to type '02' (dotted line) 4) Copy shape and paste into Word. This works correctly without any problem. However, now re-size the square to about 5 or 6 times it's original default size and copy back into Word. The line around the square is now shown as a solid line, rather than dotted as it was in Visio. In Visio have tried the 'Copy Drawing' and 'Select All/Copy'. In Word have tried 'Edit/Paste', 'Edit/Paste Special/Microsoft Visio Drawing Object' and 'Edit/Paste Special/Picture (Enhanced Metafile)' and numerous combinations of the various Visio copy and Word paste commands but all to no avail. In summary, once the shape has been re-sized larger Word treats the dotted line as if it should be solid. Any suggestions gratefully received... Word version: 11.6568.6568 SP2 (Part of Office Professional 2003) Visio version: 11.3216.6568 (Part of Office Professional 2003) |
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Visio shape losing formatting when copying diagram into Word
Hi, this worked like a charm to fix the dotted lines being converted to solid
lines problem. Thank you! I need a similar fix for shapes - the fill colour of some shapes in Visio is being changed when I copy the drawing to Word. I don't know the code to change the registry for this, but suspect is it something similar to the MetafileDashLineAsSolid, something like MetafileShapeFillAs... Can someone please help? Thanks! "Mark Nelson [MS]" wrote: This is intentional in Visio. Here is a KB article with explanation and solutions. http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=k...id=2529&sid=72 -- Mark Nelson Office Graphics - Visio Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "TechAuthor" wrote in message ... Whenever I attempt to copy certain Visio shapes (re-formatted to have a dotted line and re-sized larger) into Word, the dotted line formatting is lost and Word treats it as a solid line. For example, 1) open new basic drawing 2) Drag 'square' shape from 'Basic Shapes' 3) Format/Line: set pattern to type '02' (dotted line) 4) Copy shape and paste into Word. This works correctly without any problem. However, now re-size the square to about 5 or 6 times it's original default size and copy back into Word. The line around the square is now shown as a solid line, rather than dotted as it was in Visio. In Visio have tried the 'Copy Drawing' and 'Select All/Copy'. In Word have tried 'Edit/Paste', 'Edit/Paste Special/Microsoft Visio Drawing Object' and 'Edit/Paste Special/Picture (Enhanced Metafile)' and numerous combinations of the various Visio copy and Word paste commands but all to no avail. In summary, once the shape has been re-sized larger Word treats the dotted line as if it should be solid. Any suggestions gratefully received... Word version: 11.6568.6568 SP2 (Part of Office Professional 2003) Visio version: 11.3216.6568 (Part of Office Professional 2003) |
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