Visio 2007 with Office 2003

[Rita]

I am getting ready to download a trial version of visio 2007 and was
wondering if it works well with office 2003? I want to use Visio 2007 to
receive visio 2003 flow diagrams (which right now are bouncing back when
emailed to me) and insert them into word 2003 documents (using Visio 2007).

Will that work? Any thoughts on that are appreciated.
Thanks
Rita

 

[ZR1]

I'm looking for information on this too. I have an Office 2003 system
without Visio at all, and I want to use some of the data-link features in
Visio 2007. But will Office 2003 (mostly Excel/Word) play well with Visio
2007?

- Robbie

 

[J Kallay]

Yes.

I'm looking for information on this too. I have an Office 2003 system
without Visio at all, and I want to use some of the data-link features in
Visio 2007. But will Office 2003 (mostly Excel/Word) play well with Visio
2007?

- Robbie

 

[Rita]

Robbie,
I think it will work. I didn't use any data-link features but you can
download a free trial of visio and use it for either 30 or 60 days (don't
remember now how long the trial is) and try out what you need to do. I
needed to be able to save the flow diagrams back down to a 2002/2003 version
for my client, which was doable. I then had to insert the visio flow
diagrams into a word document, but did that by saving the visio diagram as a
gif format. So it all worked for my purposes.

I don't know how the MVPs read the posts but as I didn't get a reply to mine
- you may want to repost your question directly asking about the data-link.
since your question is a tad more technical than mine was, you might get a
response.

And finally, if you have a way of describing how to do a data-link fairly
easily, I am happy to try and see if they will play well together.

Rita

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

Just to clarify:
Visio 2003 and Visio 2007 use the same file format. Either application can
save files back to the format used in Visio 2002 and 2000.

--
Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

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