Microsoft KB Archive/829776

= You receive a &quot;An error (1415) occurred during the action open object&quot; error message when you try to modify an object in Visio 2003 =

Article ID: 829776

Article Last Modified on 1/11/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003
 * Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2003

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SYMPTOMS
When you try to edit an object in Microsoft Office Visio 2003, you may receive the following error message:

An error (1415) occurred during the action Open Object.

Visio is unable to edit the Visio object.



CAUSE
This problem may occur when you try to edit an embedded object that was created in an earlier version of Microsoft Visio and the drawing was saved as Visio 2003 Drawing (*.vsd).



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, save the drawing as Drawing (*.vsd) in the earlier version of Visio. When you open the drawing in Visio 2003, the embedded object will be converted correctly and you can edit the drawing.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section of this article.

Additional query words: err msg errmsg visio11 visio 11 ole

Keywords: kberrmsg kbprb KB829776

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