Ability to scale shapes has disappeared

[Guest]

Setting actual height/width of shapes is crucial in my presentations.
However, whether in an autoshape or an imported enhanced metaphile (from
Excel, for instance), when I seek to format the object the height/width boxes
are empty, and if I were to scale the shape by inputting a value in the scale
boxes, the object shrinks to nothing. Please anybody have any ideas on
re-enabling this feature???

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Solutions I would try if I was in your position::

I would look for hidden objects on the slide. If you select multiple, but
dissimilar sized shapes (perhaps by accident), the size boxes blank out.

I would also reboot the computer in case it having 'issues' as sometimes
they do.

I might also try to round trip the presentation thru HTML to fix any minor
corruption that may have crept into the presentation.

If it still does not fix this problem, could you post back to this thread?

Thanks,

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[Guest]

Bill,

Thanks for you post. I checked for any stray hidden objects which I could
have accidently selected when sizing, but none there. Also rebooted to see if
that cleared things, but no go. Also, saved the presentation as a HTML, then
edited it in Powerpoint, and still no sizing when formatting objects.

As a test, I opened a new/blank presentation and created a few autoshapes
(rectangle, line) and their lengths/heights show up when I format them. I
tried copy an pasting from the other presentation a logo into the new blank,
and I was able to get size and height when formatting the logo in the new
presentation.

In the presentation which shows blanks for size/height contains a lot of
copy/pastes from Excel. I format a table in Excel exactly as I would like it
to appear in Powerpoint, then copy in Excel and paste special in powerpoint
as an enhanced metafile. If the presentation (including the new blank I
referred to above) contains just one of those Excel copy/paste specials, all
of the sizing boxes blank out when formatting.

Look forward to your next post.
Thanks again, Ben

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Could you please send this file to me? I would like to see if I can dissect
it and find where it is goofing up. myname (no space) at mvps period (dot)
org

Thanks,

--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org
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