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Opening and Saving Drawings

Opening and Saving Drawings

how-to articles - Opening and Saving Drawings

how-to articles - Opening and Saving Drawings

How to convert Visio drawings to CAD format in Visio 2003
Explains how to convert Visio drawings to CAD format by using the Save As command on the File menu in Visio 2003.
How to reduce the size of a Visio drawing file in Visio
Describes how to reduce the size of a .vsd file in Visio 2007, Visio 2003, and in Visio 2000.
How to insert or paste an Excel 2003 worksheet or an Excel 2002 worksheet to a drawing in Visio
Describes how to use the Object command on the Insert menu and the Paste Special command on the Edit menu to embed or link an Excel worksheet to a Visio drawing. Also describes how to display a large Excel worksheet in a Visio drawing.

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Description of the Visio 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: December 21, 2004
Describes the Visio 2003 issue that is fixed in the Visio 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package that is dated December 21, 2004.
You cannot open or make a change to a Visio 2003 drawing that is located on a Web server that is running third-party portal software
You cannot open or make a change to a Microsoft Office Visio 2003 drawing that is located on a Web server that is running third-party portal software. For example, when you try to open a Visio 2003 drawing that is located on a Plumtree portal, a blank...

Troubleshooting - Opening and Saving Drawings

Troubleshooting - Opening and Saving Drawings

Only objects on the foreground page appear when you save a multi-page Visio drawing as a .dwg file or as a .dxf file and then view the drawing in AutoCAD
Discusses a problem where only objects on the foreground page of a multi-page Visio drawing appear when you save the drawing in CAD format and then open the drawing in AutoCAD. Objects on the background page do not appear.
The text in your Visio 2003 or Visio 2007 drawing no longer uses a custom font after you save the drawing to a Visio 2002 drawing format
Describes an issue in which text in your Visio 2003 or Visio 2007 drawing no longer uses a custom font after you save your drawing to Visio 2002 drawing format. Instead, Font 0 (zero) is used. Font 0 (zero) is the Arial font.
When you open a drawing that is managed by a DMS, Visio calls the ODMOpenDoc function and the ODMCloseDoc function three times
Describes a behavior where Visio makes three successive calls to the ODMOpenDoc function and to the ODMCloseDoc function if you open a Visio drawing that is managed by the Document Management System (DMS).

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