When you use your Web browser to view a Microsoft Office Visio 2007 or Microsoft Office Visio 2003 file that has been published to a Web site, and you click a shape that contains a hyperlink, the hyperlink may not work. The hyperlink may contain the characters %5C where it should contain a forward slash character (/). You may receive an HTML error message in your Web browser.

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This problem may occur if you view the Web page by using a Web browser other than Microsoft Internet Explorer, and the Web page that you view is on a UNIX server. The characters %5C are the hexadecimal equivalent of the backward slash character (\). If the path of the linked file contains backward slash characters, when you use Save as Web page to publish the Visio file to a Web page, the backward slash characters are not converted to forward slash characters automatically. The link that contains backward slash characters will not be followed by a Web browser other than Internet Explorer.

Visio does not give you the option to convert the backward slash characters to forward slash characters when you save the Visio file as a Web page.

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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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