Protecting a Visio Document

Protecting a Visio Document

In Visio 2003, you can save your file to a SharePoint shared workspace that permits more than one person at a time to open the same Visio file. The first person to open the drawing file has write access, which means that only he or she can save changes to the original file. When a second person opens the same file, Visio displays a message, as Figure 8-3 shows. The second person can still edit the file but must save the changed drawing as a copy using a different file name.

If you open a file that someone else has opened, Visio asks whether you want to open a read-only copy.

Figure 8-3. If you open a file that someone else ...

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