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Importing Hyperlinks into Visio Shapes

Visio shapes can have multiple hyperlinks, but it can be a chore to add them with the Insert / Hyperlinks … command.  Fortunately, Visio 2007 Professional has the Data / Link Data to Shapes … command.

If you were to have a data source, such as an Excel spreadsheet, that contains hyperlinks (see the example below)…


… then you can import these hyperlinks onto shapes, and they will be added, not only as Shape Data, but also as hyperlinks! In the example below, I have enhanced the Data Graphics to display the Shape Data on each shape.

 

When you save the Visio document to a web page as VML, then the multiple hyperlinks are available on each shape!

Unfortunately, the PDF and XPS exports don’t preserver the multiple hyperlinks – just the first one.

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