Text Boxes

[yellowhouse1976]

Hi

Is there anyway on Office 2003 using XP that you can automatically set it to
scale the text box size to the text. I know you can use the Resize Autoshape
to Fit Text option to scale up but is there a way of automatically scaling
down please?

Thanks

Jude

 

[Echo S]

That setting should work both ways. Doesn't it?

 

[yellowhouse1976]

Definitely not. Any ideas why?

That setting should work both ways. Doesn't it?

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Hi

Is there anyway on Office 2003 using XP that you can automatically set it
to
scale the text box size to the text. I know you can use the Resize
Autoshape
to Fit Text option to scale up but is there a way of automatically scaling
down please?

Thanks

Jude

 

[Echo S]

Hm. It's probably got to do with Word Wrap and also how you make the textbox
in the first place. Do you click the textbox tool then click on the slide,
or do you click and drag on the slide to create the width of textbox you
want? But still, here, the textbox generally resizes as I expect it to when
I change the font size.

If I turn off Word Wrap and then size the box to the width I want it to be,
Word Wrap gets automatically checked again. But when I change the font size,
the box width stays the same. I think that's PPT respecting the setting it
thinks you want.

Hopefully someone else will have some ideas.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx

Definitely not. Any ideas why?

That setting should work both ways. Doesn't it?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx

Hi

Is there anyway on Office 2003 using XP that you can automatically set
it
to
scale the text box size to the text. I know you can use the Resize
Autoshape
to Fit Text option to scale up but is there a way of automatically
scaling
down please?

Thanks

Jude

 

[yellowhouse1976]

Hi

I click on the text box tool and then click on the slide to create a box. I
can't create them the other way you describe

Thanks

Hm. It's probably got to do with Word Wrap and also how you make the textbox
in the first place. Do you click the textbox tool then click on the slide,
or do you click and drag on the slide to create the width of textbox you
want? But still, here, the textbox generally resizes as I expect it to when
I change the font size.

If I turn off Word Wrap and then size the box to the width I want it to be,
Word Wrap gets automatically checked again. But when I change the font size,
the box width stays the same. I think that's PPT respecting the setting it
thinks you want.

Hopefully someone else will have some ideas.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx

Definitely not. Any ideas why?

That setting should work both ways. Doesn't it?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx


message Hi

Is there anyway on Office 2003 using XP that you can automatically set
it
to
scale the text box size to the text. I know you can use the Resize
Autoshape
to Fit Text option to scale up but is there a way of automatically
scaling
down please?

Thanks

Jude