Re: dashed line not displaying

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Hey..I think you are on to something! Yes, this is the outermost shape,
border to border. What I don"t "get" is how you want me to use the pencil
tool to resize this shape.

What I did was activate the pencil tool, then click on the shape, then click
on one of the corners of the shape. I ended up just drawing a line with the
pencil instead of slightly shrinking the shape.

For giggles earlier, I tried adding another larger, borderless, unfilled
shape around the drawing I have, thinking that Visio would see this as its
new boundary and therefore would display the dashed line. It didn't.

Please let me know about the pencil tool.

Thanks for sticking with me on this.
"WapperDude" wrote:

After re-reading your 1st post, the dashed rectangle is the "outer most
border", correct? So, when you dbl click to edit, the resulting display is
"sized" to your rectangle. Try this, select the pencil tool and grab the
corners and slightly shrink the rectangle. Don't use the select arrow to
re-size, that won't work. It appears that the dashed lines disappear when
the rectangle is "border to border" with the selection box.



"WapperDude" wrote:

So, you tried copy/paste directly into Word? There's still the additional
step of opening the pasted drawing and "re-triggering" the dashed lines.
That really should have worked.

Yeah, sometimes Visio has a mindlessness about it, and believes your
carefully placed shapes and lines need re-arrangement. Never quite
understood that.

One other thought, using your approach, when you open the placed Visio
object for editting, then draw a shape with dashed lines, does the new shape
appear OK?

Wapperdude




"cayce" wrote:

I appreciate you delving into this, and, yes, quirky is a good description.

I tried your suggestions and continue to have a solid line. I copy/pasted
into a new Visio object inserted into W2007 file; it made soooo many changes
to my drawing that I would have had to fix, I decided it wasn't worth the
effort.

But, I like the brain churn behind your suggestions. That's what makes these
forums so helpful: another point of view, another way of looking at a problem.

Peace

"WapperDude" wrote:

Tried the copy / paste alternative, didn't work. But, if you make a new
drawing, the dashed lines will pass thru. Quirky!!!



"WapperDude" wrote:

If you change your methodology, you can have your dashed lines and edit too.

First, using your technique does indeed lose the dashed lines. But, you can
do a copy / paste (or paste special > Visio Drawing Object--although this
step isn't really necessary anymore). The pasted Visio drawing will be
edittable by double clicking on the drawing. But, when 1st pasted, the
dashed lines disappear. So, dbl click to open up Visio, select the shape,
make a fake line style change, change back to desired line style (I think a
change must be "triggered"), and then close the Visio edit window. Your
dashed lines should be present.

An alternative, is insert object > new > Visio, and make the drawing in this
window. I think copy / paste works here too. Close the edit window, and
your dashed lines will be there.

HTH
Wapperdude.



"cayce" wrote:

Hi Al:

I have been using insert> object> from file for this situation (so coworkers
can edit it from within the Word 2007 file). I don't ever just copy/paste.

It appears my dashed line is not going to be retained. Such is life.

Thanks again for trying.
"AlEdlund" wrote:

You might try changing the format of the dashed line. As I mentioned, Visio
at one time would change the format intentionally to reduce processing and
image size. The other thought is export the picture to a file as and then
import the file (rather than using the clipboard).
al

"cayce" <cayce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:866AEF2A-07C1-4ECA-8C6E-B40EB120BE03@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Al for the ideas. I am inserting is as an object since this makes
it:
1. editable for coworkers
2. produces the clearest print quality (these is a customer facing
document).

Hmmmm, I tried three different metafile types and used
inserted>picture>from
file. All three versions have solid line result: enhanced metafile (.emf),
Windows metafile (.wmf), and compressed enhanced metafile ( .emz).

Any other ideas?

Thanks for the help so far.



"AlEdlund" wrote:

Sometimes this is by design. It has to do with the processing needed to
handle it and the resolution that it may be saved as. Are you saving it
to
word as a visio object or as a bitmap type of drawing, recommendation is
to
save it as some form of metafile?
al

"cayce" <cayce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2B99E26A-9962-47CB-B828-965DD53AC644@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a small Visio diagram that I am inserting into W2007. The outside
most
shape is an unfilled rounded rectagle that has a dashed line. When I
insert
this drawing as an object in Word 2007, the dashed line shows up as a
solid
line instead. Any ideas on why this is and how to fix it?


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