Linking Visio Shapes and Pages

You don’t have to save your diagram as a Web page to create hyperlinks, which make it possible to jump from one shape or file to another. You can link a shape on one page of a diagram to a shape on another page that provides another view or more information. You can also link a shape to another Visio, Office, or other document, or even a Web address. Shapes can even contain multiple hyperlinks. And if you do add hyperlinks to shapes, and then save the diagram as a Web page, Visio preserves the links, which appear when you pause the pointer over a shape. In a diagram, hyperlinks that you define appear as options on a shape’s shortcut menu, as Figure 5-1 shows.

Figure 5-1. When you define one or more hyperlinks, Visio ...

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