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Creating Drawings

how-to articles - Creating Drawings

how-to articles - Creating Drawings

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.

Troubleshooting - Creating Drawings

Troubleshooting - Creating Drawings

Text in embedded Word objects disappears in Visio
Explains that text in a Word object that is embedded in a drawing in Visio is visible only when the object is rotated. A workaround for this problem requires that you to modify the registry.
You cannot use the Reverse Engineer Wizard on certain DBMS database in Visio 2003
Describes what occurs when you cannot run the Reverse Engineer Wizard on certain database types in Visio 2003.
A docked stencil opens in the instance of the Visio ActiveX control that was last active when you use the OpenEx method in Visio
Discusses a scenario where a docked stencil opens in the instance of the Visio drawing control that was last active when you use the OpenEx method to open a docked stencil in a program that uses multiple instances of the drawing control.

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Last Review : April 20, 2012