Problems with Visio 2003 Drawings in Office 2007

I am having problems pasting Visio 2003 drawings into Word 2007 documents.
When I try to do this (using Copy/Paste commands), I get the following
message: "Word is waiting for another application to complete an OLE action."
I am then given a "Switch to," "Retry," or "Cancel" option. Clicking "Switch
to" gets me nowhere; clicking "Retry" also is a dead end. When I click
"Cancel," I am able (after about four dialogue boxes and four "cancels"
finally paste my Visio diagram into the document (after a final dialog box
that says the Word has encountered an error).

When and if I try to edit the Visio document within Word . . . . well, let's
just say that it doesn't work at all. Word treats the Visio diagram as a
simple graphic.

The other piece of information that might be useful here: When I start Visio
2003 I get an initial dialogue box that says "Visio could not find this
add-on or one of its files. An error occured and it is no longer functioning
properly. Would you like to repair this feature now?" If I click "yes,"
Visio then tells me it is installing the add-on (which one I don't know) . .
.. but the next time I start Visio I get the same message.

Any insights or suggestions?

I am running both Office 2007 and Visio 2003 on a Dell XPS 410 Vista
Ultimate PC with 4GB of RAM.

Thanks for any assistance that the community can provide.

You may want to make sure Visio is working properly before moving on to the
Word copy and paste issue. Do you happen to have any applications that might
insert an add-on in Visio such as Adobe? If you can get Visio to open go to
tools > macros > com add-ins and see it anything is listed if so uncheck the
box. Once you can get Visio to open without giving you any warnings or error
message you can start to troubleshoot the other issue. You could go to the
event viewer and check the log to determine what Visio is trying to install.

James W.


"JeffreyLee" wrote:

> I am having problems pasting Visio 2003 drawings into Word 2007 documents.
> When I try to do this (using Copy/Paste commands), I get the following
> message: "Word is waiting for another application to complete an OLE action."
> I am then given a "Switch to," "Retry," or "Cancel" option. Clicking "Switch
> to" gets me nowhere; clicking "Retry" also is a dead end. When I click
> "Cancel," I am able (after about four dialogue boxes and four "cancels"
> finally paste my Visio diagram into the document (after a final dialog box
> that says the Word has encountered an error).
>
> When and if I try to edit the Visio document within Word . . . . well, let's
> just say that it doesn't work at all. Word treats the Visio diagram as a
> simple graphic.
>
> The other piece of information that might be useful here: When I start Visio
> 2003 I get an initial dialogue box that says "Visio could not find this
> add-on or one of its files. An error occured and it is no longer functioning
> properly. Would you like to repair this feature now?" If I click "yes,"
> Visio then tells me it is installing the add-on (which one I don't know) . .
> . but the next time I start Visio I get the same message.
>
> Any insights or suggestions?
>
> I am running both Office 2007 and Visio 2003 on a Dell XPS 410 Vista
> Ultimate PC with 4GB of RAM.
>
> Thanks for any assistance that the community can provide.