Sunday, November 05, 2006 10:21 AM sandi

Hyperlink Problem in Internet Explorer 7 - VML output generated by Visio 2003

Thanks to Susan for bringing this one to my attention.

If you click on a clicking a hyperlink in a drawing saved as HTML from Visio 2003 you may see this error message:

"The problem occurs only with Visio 2003 (not with earlier versions or with Visio 2007, which will soon be available) and only when the Web output format is VML. Essentially, the way Visio 2003 structures the hyperlinks in VML output is not supported in IE 7, and hyperlinks that worked fine in IE 6 will fail in IE 7."
http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2006/11/03/hyperlink-problem-in-internet-explorer-7.aspx

There is nothing that the IE7 user can do about this problem.  The onus is on the person using Visio to roll out the fixes described in the blog.

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# re: Hyperlink Problem in Internet Explorer 7 - VML output generated by Visio 2003

Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:31 PM by Brent Matson

The best way I found around this was to save the visio document as .jpg.  It still keeps all the links and everything intact and it will work with IE7.  I sure hope they put a fix out for this though.

# re: Hyperlink Problem in Internet Explorer 7 - VML output generated by Visio 2003

Tuesday, December 19, 2006 7:39 AM by Pepaski

Visio guy offers a great (free) tool, so you can still use VML-output. Look at their website:

http://visguy.com/2006/11/08/save-as-web-link-problem-visio-2003-ie7/

# re: Hyperlink Problem in Internet Explorer 7 - VML output generated by Visio 2003

Tuesday, December 26, 2006 6:56 PM by Paul

I have a hyperlink problem in that I always have to hold down the control key and click on the hyperlink. Any solutions would be appreciated.thx

Paul

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