One of our clients just sent us a Visio file with a problem that was frustrating them. The drawing contained a plan view of several network devices including rectangles to represent cabinet encosures. They grouped and copied the objects and then used Paste Special in Word to paste an image (note that the default Paste action in Word pastes a Visio embedded object into Word which you typically don't want). No matter what they tried, one of the enclusures simply would not appear in the pasted image. It appeared in Visio, and a copy of the enclosure appeared in Visio, but not in Word.
The culprit turned out to be the “NonPrinting” cell in the Miscellaneous section of the ShapeSheet set to “TRUE” which means a shape won't print. That can be verified by opening a Print Preview window... if the NonPrinting cell is set to TRUE the object won't appear in the preview or the hardcopy print.
Changing that cell to “FALSE” (which through the magic of double negative means it WILL print) in those rectangles enabled them to appear in Print Preview as well as in a copy/paste in Word. I have no idea how the rectangles got into that state, unless they were imported from a CAD file (my suspicion) where they may have been set to not print.
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