Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Step by Step

Embedding Copies of Visio Diagrams in Office 2003 Files

If you have a Visio diagram that you want to add to an Office 2003 file, you can embed a copy of the diagram into the file. When you embed a diagram in an Office 2003 file, you copy the entire diagram or pieces of it, and then paste the copy into the file. The copy of the diagram becomes part of the Office 2003 file. When you modify the embedded diagram in the Office 2003 file, you modify the copy only. Any changes you make to the copy of the diagram don't appear in the original Visio diagram because there's no link between the Office 2003 file and the Visio drawing file.

In this exercise, you ...