Visio to Powerpoint or Other Formats problem, please help!

[Joshua]

Note: This message was already posted in the visio forum. I'm posting it
here in order to see if here are some Powerpoint gurus who can help me
in this issue, since Powerpoint would be the preferred target for my
conversion problem. Thanks.



Isn't there any way to convert VISIO files in other format where you
can edit the shape text? (let's say any other Office app, as
Powerpoint,Word, etc.). I understand you can save as Autocad DWG, but
what if you don't have autocad?. All the "converters" I've researched
allows you to view the file, print the file or convert it to a graphic
format (lots of them!) in which you cannot modify the shapes text. I'ts
driving me nuts!. The visio files were left to us by a contracted
adviser, who did the job in his laptop, where he had VISIO. We paid
already for the files, the documentation in it is ours, but we now need
to change some text in them, such as staff position name or the owner of
a position, for example, and we don't have VISIO, and there is no
intention to purchase it by now. The shortest way could be redo the
drawings from the beginning in other app, but the work to be done just
to change three or four words in each drawing is too much, and as
Murphy stated somewhere, we are a little tight on time, tight enough to
make useless to try restarting the drawing from scratch. Is there any
solution? Thanks.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

If you want 3 words changed and have access to the Visio VSD file, shoot the
thing to me and I'll do it for you. If however the files are flat graphics,
then that is another matter entirely. If you know these words will change
you may want to consider leaving them out of the image during design and
simply adding a text box over the graphic with the additional text from
within PowerPoint.

Visio files can be saved as a number of image formats, but almost all of
these "flatten" the picture making changing any component part of it more
difficult. As long as the layered components are accessible, simple changes
are easy.

Probably the only format that will preserve this layering from Visio other
than Visio files, are the AutoCad extensions (as you have already
discovered).


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