Extracting text from Visio

[Dan Goldstein]

Hi Maggie,

That method gives me a copy of the _whole drawing_ -- rather than just
the text, which is what I needed.

Thanks,

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maggie_Secara
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 2:25 PM
> To: Dan Goldstein
> Cc: techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com; 
> Subject: Re: Extracting text from Visio
> 
> I don't know how to convert it, but you can marquis 
> (marquee?) everything in the drawing and just copy 
> it to Word.  Start at the top left hand corner and
> hold down the left mouse button as you drag the 
> pointer to the lower right corner. when you let 
> go of the mouse key, you'll find everything 
> highlighted.  Copy and paste.
> There's probably a more elegant way, but it's been 
> working for me.
> 

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