VBA-Wrap text around a picture

[Edward]

Hi everybody,
I know PP doesn't have the option to wrap text around a picture liek word ,
but has anyone ever tried to create something similar in PP?
I have a picture and text to it's left and bottom ( all inserted using VBA )
, I'm thinking to use two textboxes and create the wraped text feeling , but
it will be nice if we can do this using just one textbox.

 

[David Marcovitz]

Hi everybody,
I know PP doesn't have the option to wrap text around a picture liek word ,
but has anyone ever tried to create something similar in PP?
I have a picture and text to it's left and bottom ( all inserted using VBA )
, I'm thinking to use two textboxes and create the wraped text feeling , but
it will be nice if we can do this using just one textbox.

That sounds like a great idea. I hope you'll share it with everyone after
you write it (and maybe adapt it for use with text boxes in Word as well)


--David


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David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

 

[David Horowitz]

I am looking to do a similar thing, but much less complex.
For your situation, I had once seen a tutorial that used multiple textboxes.
I don't know of a way that would make it easy to do it in a single textbox.
Of course, you could put carriage returns in the appropriate places etc. The
thing that troubles me about all of these ways to do it is that if the user
ever wants to manually edit the text thusly created, they're going to have a
real hard time.
I'm looking for a solution to a scaled down problem - I don't need
horizontal text wrapping around pictures - I just need text above and below.
And the pictures can only come between bullets, not "inside" them. So I can
just use carriage returns to space down the text below the picture. But it's
so cumbersome.
It would be so nice if PPT had text wrapping capabilities. It seems like a
bit of a shortcoming...

 

[Edward]

I would use two column bodytext placeholders . Populate the first one then
where it ends ( you can find the position using VBA) you can position the
photo and again you can find the bottom edge of the photo and postion the
second bodytextplaceholder and popuoate it with your text.
It's seems to be a straight formward and easy process.
As you mentioned there is always the editing problem , so we need to have a
macro to reflow the entire text and reposition objects in case of any edit.

 

[raspcz]

good