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Useful Microsoft Word TechniquesVisio Diagrams in Word DocumentsCopy Visio Diagram to Word DocumentAll Visio diagrams are created and changed in their own files. Do not edit a Visio diagram fromwithin a Word document; just because you can doesn’t mean you should.After a desired Visio diagram is created/changed, it can be copied to Word. This is a simple matterof selecting the Visio diagram (or a part of one) and copying it to the clipboard, then use Word menuEdit, Paste Special to paste it as a picture. Be careful not to paste it as a Visio object, which makesthe file size larger and makes it possible to edit the diagram without doing so in the master Visio file.Afterwards, apply a border according to the style sheet.You have three choices for pasting Visio drawings into a Word document, and not surprisingly theyaffect the Word file size differently. In my test with a drawing that fills one page, I found thefollowing file sizes:Visio file 29KBVisio drawing in Word as OLE 47KBVisio drawing in Word as Picture 28KBVisio drawing in Word as Picture Metafile27KBOn the basis of size, I would opt for pasting as a Picture; I never want anybody else to take advantageof the OLE functionality whereby the editor can double-click on the diagram in Word and open aVisio editing session. However, Pictures are problematic: they are “shapes” with anchors, areanchored to a range of text, and are free-floating. This can be overcome by converting them to an“inline shape” with the menu Format, Picture, then on the Layout tab selecting “In line with text.”You can use a macro to convert a Visio picture into an inline shape. Word 2003 now has a setting(Tools, Options) to insert images as inline with text. This eliminates the need for the macro.I recently (June 2006) had the experience that a screen shot edited in Visio and pasted into a Worddocument printed correctly on a Toshiba printer but not on a small HP LaserJet. On the latter theoriginal screen shot image was flipped. The solution was to paste the image as Picture (EnhancedMetafile). My home HP LaserJet 1300 has no such problem.Sometimes a Visio drawing is distorted when the Word document is converted to a PDF file. Thisseems to happen when it is pasted as a Picture but not as a Picture Metafile. If you publish a Wordfile with Visio drawings as a PDF be sure to double check the drawings afterwards for distortion. If itis present, you will have to paste the drawings with a different format.What works for me now (with Word 2003, Windows XP, and Acrobat 7) is to paste Visio drawingsas Picture (Windows Metafile). It is converted to PDF correctly without losing visual quality.Place Visio Diagram in Word DocumentThere are different approaches to placing wide Visio drawings in a portrait-oriented document whosepaper size = letter:Revision: 5/16/2014 Page 32 of 78Copyright 2005–2014 by Susan Dorey Designs
Useful Microsoft Word Techniques1. In Word, shrink the drawing to fit in portrait orientation.2. Paste the drawing, then rotate it. This choice can have a border applied, but it is done with the“Format Picture” dialog box.3. In Visio, rotate the drawing before copying it. This choice seems to affect the conversion toPDF: you must set PDF conversion setting to rotate pages individually.4. In Word, insert a landscape section and paste the drawing into it.Using PicturesWord distinguishes between pictures and drawings. Pictures are images created outside of Word,including those created by PrintScreen and captured in the clipboard. Drawings are images made inWord with the drawing tools. Drawings are also called shapes.Graphics can be inline or floating. In your Word document there are multiple layers, including atext layer and a graphics layer (sometimes called a drawing layer). Text and objects that act like text,such as inline graphics, reside in the text layer. By contrast, a graphic that resides in the graphics layercan be moved independently of the text. This is a floating graphic. You can change a graphic frominline to floating by changing the text-wrapping style; any wrapping style other than “In line withtext” will create a floating graphic.An inline picture can be rotated: use the Rotate tool on the Picture toolbar. Once rotated, placing aborder works differently.Floating graphics have an anchor symbol and a green rotation handle at the top.The default layout (wrapping style) for inserted pictures is specified on the Edit tab of the “Options”window accessed by the menu Tools, Options; it is labeled “Insert/paste picture as”. The value ischosen from a list box. If the layout you want for a particular picture is not the default, you will haveto change it for the individual picture after insertion.Commonly pictures are inserted between paragraphs without word wrap. When the picture is theonly content of the paragraph it is logically “inline”. Caution when controlling the paragraph linespacing: if it is set to “exactly” some number of points, the graphic will only show that manypoints—in other words it will be truncated. If you specify a paragraph style with line spacing as“exactly”, change it to “at least” so the graphic will show in its entirety.Floating graphics, i.e., images in the graphic layer, are not visible in Normal View. Switch to PrintView to see and access floating graphics.A floating graphic can be repositioned, resized, cropped, rotated, given a border, and its textwrapping property changed. First you must select it. To reformat a floating graphic, first make itvisible by setting Print View, then open the Drawing Toolbar (with menu View, Toolbars). TheDrawing Toolbar is placed near the bottom of the Word window. In the toolbar click the buttonto activate the Select Object tool, the pointer icon will change to a 4-headed arrow. Click thegraphic/image to select it. When a graphic is selected, its appearance changes: an anchor iconappears as well as small circles at each corner and edge midpoint, and a green rotation handle. Inaddition the Picture Toolbar automatically opens.Once a floating graphic is selected you can change its formatting by using either the Picture Toolbarcontrols or the “Format Picture” dialog box (accessed from menu Format, Picture). If you want toRevision: 5/16/2014 Page 33 of 78Copyright 2005–2014 by Susan Dorey Designs
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