[stephen]

In the first case, you still have an active OLE link back to Visio, as a *.vsd file.
In the second case, the Visio drawing is "simply" being embedded into the document
without an active link back to the Visio application. In this case, Word's "engine"
is interpreting how the object will look and print, rather than Visio's.

As a general rule, your documents will be faster and "lighter" NOT using the LINK
field, as this will embed a portion of the OLE Server (Visio) in the Word document.
For some graphics objects, one actually gets a *better* result by doing this. In
your case, however, the quality is apparently better when Visio is not involved in
the rendering. So I'd go with the users who do not use Insert/Object :-)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
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Cindy,

That explains that. Thanks again for your assistance.

Stephen