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can't edit drawing

Started by mindjob, December 16, 2011, 12:51:42 AM

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mindjob

Hello, Greg here,

I use Visio at work to edit diagrams in procedures written in Word. Usually I can go to the Word document, copy the diagram and paste it into Visio. Them I ungroup the diagram, which consists of boxes, arrows and text, then edit the diagram. But this one diagram today wouldn't ungroup, but instead had what looked like a white background. There was only the one page, so there was not technically a background. When I tried to ungroup nothing happened, and when I double-clicked on it, it enlarged the diagram. Clicking on it again shrunk it back to its original size. I tried pasting it into Visio as a drawing and Word file, but it didn't matter.

So I am mystified as to why I couldn't edit the diagram. This is the first time this has happened.
Thanks for your help,
Greg

aledlund

are you sure it's a format editable by visio? it may have been inserted as a bitmap of some sort.
al

mindjob


aledlund

I understood the Word part, it was the drawing that confused me ("copy the diagram").
al

mindjob

I tried to attach the file, but the system won't let me.
Greg

Paul Herber

Quote from: mindjob on December 20, 2011, 06:16:31 PM
I tried to attach the file, but the system won't let me.
What error message did you get? Ensure the file is less than 500kB.
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mindjob

The file is 340 Kb. The system doesn't give me an error message, it just doesn't post my email.
G

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