You receive a "Microsoft Office Visio Viewer couldn't load the url address or the file" error message when you try to open a Visio 2007 or Visio 2003 drawing in Visio Viewer 2003

When you try to open a Microsoft Office Visio 2007 or Microsoft Office Visio 2003 drawing from a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services document library or from a Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server document library, the drawing does not open in Microsoft Office Visio Viewer 2003. Additionally, you receive the following error message:

This issue may occur if the Visio drawing has a file name that contains an accented character. For example, the file name may include an accented character that is similar to any one of the following:

To work around this issue, switch to Explorer view in the document library. Then, open the Visio drawing. To view a document library in Explorer view, click the document library on the Quick Launch bar, and then click Explorer View under Select a View.

Note To avoid this issue, do not use accented characters in file names.

For more information about Visio Viewer 2003, visit the following Microsoft Web site: