Help! Autoshapes behave like text boxes-possible 2007-2003 issue

[Guest]

I'm a 5yr, very advanced professional powerpoint designer and i've never seen
anything like this. I'm working in ppt 2003 and have noticed that some lines
and rectangles suddenly change shape dramatically when I try to edit them.
Worse, they do not respond to any attempts to move the 'handles' in order to
put them back the way they are supposed to be. I noticed that they behaved
as though they were text boxes with "resize autoshape to fit text" checked,
and sure enough--if I went to the text box properties, resize autoshape and
sure enough, "word wrap text in autoshape" and "Resize autoshape to fit text"
were checked--EVEN THOUGH THESE NEVER HAD ANY TEXT IN THEM EVER. I'm familar
with accidentally typing a key and creating a text box, but that did not
happen. I've had all kinds of shapes suddenly distort and become uneditable.
The only way to resize them is then to uncheck "word wrap text in autoshape"
and "Resize autoshape to fit text". But the damage is already done--the
objects are completely distorted! This is a nightmare. I've never seen this
before, the only thing different about this file is that it was at one point
edited by a machine running office 2007--in compatibility mode.
Please help, any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Every shape in my
presentation is a time bomb waiting to shrink to 80% it's height, or grow
400%.

 

[Guest]

This does happen between in the scenario you've describe (edit in 2007). I
haven't been able to avoid it and I've had to perform the "word wrap"
work-around.

Has anyone figured out how to avoid this?

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Sandy Johnson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist (MOS PowerPoint)

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[Guest]

Thank goodness someone else has seen this, I thought I was going crazy.
Further research seems to point to a definite problem on slides that have
ever been opened and saved--not even edited--in 2007. The "word wrap"
workaround is ok for shapes not in groups, but the simple act of ungrouping
the shapes in order to attempt the "word wrap" workaround causes all the
shapes to collapse to the height and width of a single blank character text
box. I really hope someone can recomend a way to fix this.

 

[Guest]

I'm grateful you could decipher my poorly written posting. Looks like I was
in a hurry to write/post it...
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Sandy Johnson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist (MOS PowerPoint)

Join us at the PowerPoint Live User Conference.
October 28-31, 2007 • New Orleans
www.powerpointlive.com.