Saving Visio Diagrams as Metafiles Within Word Documents

posted by  jhorra (5)  10 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

One of the most common questions that I get involves how to paste Visio diagrams into Word without bloating the diagram size. When you cut and paste a Visio diagram into another Office diagram, you are putting an OLE object in your document. Because you are running the Visio process within the Office document, your Office document is going to get considerably bigger. The benefit of using OLE embedded objects lie in the ability for the user to edit the Visio drawing in the Office document.

If you don't care about editing your diagram in the docume