[Sigia-l] Visio Question: Slow File Selection

[Sean Ritzie]

Do you have a lot of images in your document,
particularly bitmaps?  If so, try compressing your
individual images to reduce the overall file size of
your document.  As of Visio 2003 (maybe even 2002),
there's an image compression feature within the app
that allows you to do this.

1. Right-click on the image you want to compress
2. Select "Format > Picture"
3. Select the "Compression" tab

Everything else should be straightforward from there. 
I usually compress to about 50% and it doesn't degrade
the image quality so bad.

Good luck and hope this helps,

Sean

 
--- Christopher Fahey <askrom at graphpaper.com> wrote:
> I have a question for any nuts-and-bolts Visio
> experts out there: When
> selecting large (10 meg+) Visio files in Windows
> Explorer (for moving,
> renaming, etc), it can sometimes take 5, 10, even 30
> seconds for the select
> action to complete. During this time, Windows
> Explorer freezes. Does anyone
> have any advice on how I might prevent this from
> occurring?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Cf
> 
> Christopher Fahey
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