MS Word back to Visio

[LyleB_Austin]

I created a Visio flowchart which I subsequently included in a Word document.
I don't remember what technique I used to add it to the Word document.
Anyway, I have lost the original Visio file so all I have is a 'picture' of
the flowchart in the Word document. I'd like to be able to somehow get it
back into Visio to modify. When I copy/paste from the Word document back to
Visio and then try to edit, Visio seems to see the entire flow chart as a
single shape. When I double click it opens a separate shape editor window,
but I want to convert it to a Visio drawing so I can edit it just as I did
the original when I created it. Any way to do this? Thanks.

 

[AlEdlund]

Since "Visio seems to see the entire flow chart as a single shape" you may
have either inserted it into Word as a grouped shape (see if you can ungroup
it in Visio) or you put it in as a 'picture' (jpg or bmp). If you put it in
as a picture then you will have to recreate it.
al

 

[LyleB_Austin]

Thanks. I was able to 'ungroup' but in doing so, it now sees each line of
text within each shape as a separate object. In other words it has ungrouped
at a much more granular level than expected. Normally, I would expect a
shape and it's accompanying text to be treated as a single object. This is
resulting in odd effects and makes editing a mess.

 

[AlEdlund]

you may have moved it as a metafile, and all of the visio smarts were
dropped...
al