Visio Quits Unexpectedly When You Copy or Cut Objects in an ER Source Model Diagram (814720)

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Visio for Enterprise Architects 2002, if you select all the objects in a Visio Entity Relationship (ER) Source Model diagram, and you then use the Cut command or the Copy command to cut or to copy the selected objects, Visio may quit unexpectedly. When this problem occurs, you do not receive an error message.

CAUSE

This problem may occur if the ER Source Model diagram has two or more tables and you have defined a Category Relationship between two tables.

This problem may also occur if one or more Entity or Connector shapes are colored in the ER Source Model diagram.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem in an ER Source Model diagram that contains Category Relationships, use one of the following methods in Visio instead of using the Cut command or the Copy command to cut or to copy the selected objects:

To create another copy of the ER Source Model diagram, follow these steps:
1. On the File menu, click Save As.
2. In the Save As dialog box, type the path and the file name of the copy in the File name text box.
3. Click Save.
To remove all the objects in an ER Source Model diagram, use the Delete command instead of the Cut command.

REFERENCES

For additional information about a similar problem in Visio, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

321571 FIX: Visio 2002 Unexpectedly Quits When You Close an ORM Source Model After You Use the Undo Paste Command