In an earlier lesson, I showed you how you can save a Visio drawing as an alternate
file format. For instance, as a jpg graphic if you needed to share a drawing
with another person who did not own the Visio application. Now, all that's well
and good; however you're not going to have the level of interactivity that you
may otherwise have, certainly, if the destination person had Visio installed on
his or her computer or, as we're going to learn in this lesson, if that
destination user were running the Microsoft Visio 2007 Viewer. Now, you should
be aware that for just about all of the Microsoft Office Suite applications,
Microsoft makes available a free add-on called a viewer that allows just that;
somebody who doesn't have a license for the full product to still be able to
view the source file. Now understand, it's a read-only view. It's not a
modifiable view. But none the less, it's a heck of a lot better than the user
not being able to see the document at all. Are we agreed? Now then, in order to
get the Visio Viewer, I would recommend you do a Google search for Visio 2007
Viewer and that'll bring you to the page that you're seeing on your screen right
now. The Visio 2007 Viewer, as Microsoft tells us, in fact let me boost the font
a little bit, it allows anyone to view Visio drawings and diagrams created with
Visio 5 all the way to 2007 inside their Internet Explorer version 5 or later
web browser. So what this actually is, it's an Active X control, or a plug-in
that integrates into your Internet Explorer browser and allows read-only view of
Visio diagrams. Again, it's quite nice because you can zoom in, you can do
panning, you can do zooming, you do have quite a degree of interactivity with
the document, it's just that you can't change its contents. So it's a relatively
small download. I mean, depending on how you, what you consider small to be. It
looks like as of this recording the Visio Viewer is 7.7 megabytes. But we would
just click download and we would just bring the file down and you can share it
with whomever you need to who needs to be able to view your Visio diagrams. So
I'm glad that you're aware of this and again, I'll finish with, with a reminder
that there are viewers available for most of the Office applications. And they
can make file sharing in a business environment much, much easier. Or
alternatively, if you're a traveling person and you conduct seminars, you may be
in a situation where you need to display a Visio diagram to a group of folks and
the computer that you're using doesn't have a full installation of Visio. That's
another case where the Visio 2000 Viewer can be a very great help.
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