Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Inside Out

Embedding a Diagram in a Microsoft Office Document

You can embed Visio shapes or diagrams into Office documents. Embedding has some convenient advantages:

• Embedded shapes or diagrams are stored in the document in their entirety, but you can edit them using Visio tools without switching to Visio or leaving the document.

• The embedded document is stored separately from any other Visio diagram, so changes you make won’t affect the original diagram file.

• Because embedded diagrams are stored in the document, they travel with the document, so you can view and print them accurately when you open the document on a computer that doesn’t have Visio installed.

The primary disadvantage of embedding is file size. Because all the Visio shape data is stored in the ...