Visio 2003, cannot link from another visio drawing with multiple p

[EYE]

Hi, I have a visio source file with many pages (each page has a drawing). I
want to make an "overview". When I link from the overview to the source visio
file, the link is only showing the active page that was last selected when
the linked file was saved.

How can I link to a file and point to a specific page? (I have about 100
drawings per source file)

Right now I have to run my "file splitter" macro, and re-save every sheet of
the source drawing into an individual file in order to have that page active
when I point to it when I link! (workaround, but expensive)!

What I do: Insert/Object/Create_from_file(link_to_file)
and as I said, the linked file only works on the page that was shown when it
was last saved.

How is this worked-around by other people?

Regards,

EYE

 

[Michel LAPLANE]

i think you must use the hyperlink feature insert>hyperlink

 

[EYE]

I guess my question was too long.

I want to do something like "insert/object/from_file" to insert a drawing
from an external .vsd file in my current .vsd file.

The problem is I cannot specify a page of the external .vsd file, and visio
always takes the one selected by default on the last save.

any ideas?

 

[Michel LAPLANE]

Ok i understand what you mean. You insert the file as an ole object so it
react as all other ole object for changing the page you must double click on
the object to activate it as a visio document, select the right page tab and
quit the OLE edition. Perhaps you do that automatically with some line of
code in writing you own import command..

 

[EYE]

Thanks for your answer Michael, but I still have my question open.

I do the following steps in Visio 2003:
1. create new visio document
2. click on: Insert/"Object..."/"Create from file" + "Link to file"
3. click "Browse..." and find the .vsd file to insert. Click "open".
4. click "OK".

That's it. My problem is that I find no way to specify what page of the
imported visio file to display. It always displays the default-saved page.
(of course, the imported visio file has multiple pages)

Is there a way in Visio do to this?

Now,