Why can't I copy a page in Visio?

[Mr Pointy]

I can't believe this. In Excel I can right click on a tab & save it to another file or as a new file. In Visio - not a feature. It seems the only way is to select all the shapes & then Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V onto a blank page in the target file.

Why? Surely it's a basic requirement?

[sgrimshaw]

You certainly don't have to select everything in Visio 2010

Just right click on the source page and "copy", then go to the new blank page right click and "paste"

[FunkyGibbon]

In Visio 2019 you right click a tab and duplicate...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/copy-pa...

[Mr Pointy]

FunkyGibbon said:

In Visio 2019 you right click a tab and duplicate...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/copy-pa...

But that's only with in the same file/document. If you want to copy a tab/page from one document to another you can't - you have to Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V on to a blank page & the position of the shapes on the new page isn't the same as the original page which matters if you have a drawing border/surround.

[Sporky]

Because Visio is a bit shoddy, and Microsoft aren't particularly active about updating it.

VBA in Visio is completely different from Excel and Word. Visio's snapping and gluing are pretty awful too.

That said, like Excel, it's often the least bad way to get stuff done.

[FunkyGibbon]

Mr Pointy said:

But that's only with in the same file/document. If you want to copy a tab/page from one document to another you can't - you have to Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V on to a blank page & the position of the shapes on the new page isn't the same as the original page which matters if you have a drawing border/surround.

Ah see what you mean. You could from original File Save As and create a copy of the file...

But agree not as elegant as Excel copy to new book.

[mmm-five]

It's because Visio isn't really a Microsoft-designed product. It was bought from Shapeware/Visio in 2000 and the team working on it aren't interested in making it part of the 'Office' experience.

Much like Adobe buying the Aldus portfolio and then killing Freehand & Pagemaker when they bought Aldus and then Macromedia (some of the same development team from those days worked on Visio).