Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Inside Out

Protecting a Visio 2007 Document

In Visio 2007, you can save your file to a SharePoint shared workspace that permits more than one person at a time to open the same Visio file. The first person to open the drawing file has write access, which means that only he or she can save changes to the original file. When a second person opens the same file, Visio 2007 displays a message, as Figure 8-3 shows. The second person can still edit the file but must save the changed drawing as a copy using a different file name.

Figure 8-3. If you open a file that someone else has open, Visio 2007 asks whether you want to open a read-only copy.

Visio 2007 provides ...