Rotation doesn't maintain aspect ratios on wordart objects

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Beachdude

Heres the situation,
Using the borders and fills option, you design a template
of a room using the cells. Once done, you place some
wordart objects that are scale "footprints" of objects to
be placed in that room.

The idea is to move them around to gain a birds eye view
of the room design/layout. However when you rotate these
objects they get longer or shorter.

When you rotate them 180° (back to their starting
position) they are normal agian. WHY? If a rectangle
is exactly so many pixels long X wide...wouldn't it still
be that many when rotated 90° either left or right???

Help.
 
Beachdude,
Double click on an object to get the Format AutoShape dialog box.
Select the Size tab, then check mark the Lock aspect ratio box. I'm
guessing you also have Snap to Grid set. From the drawing toolbar,
make sure it is deselected. When it is set it will try to pull your shape
to the nearest gridlines especially if you did not lock the aspect ratio.

If you have a lot of objects, you can select and reformat several, if not
all, at once, by using the selection arrow on the drawing tool bar, and
drawing a box around all the objects you want to reformat simultaneously.

Regards,
Tom McNamara

----- Beachdude wrote: -----

"....you place some
wordart objects that are scale "footprints" of objects to
be placed in that room....when you rotate these
objects they get longer or shorter.
When you rotate them 180° (back to their starting
position) they are normal agian....
 
I tried your suggestion, but it still didnt work.

Here is the EXACT senerio I'm trying:

To create the grid select the ENTIRE worksheet and makes all column
widths exactly 2.00 Now to the eye, the entire screen should be
comprised of hundredes of rows/columns all intersecting to perfect
squares.

Next draw a wordart rectangle ontop of those squares...using the
gridlines as a template for accuracy.

For the sake of of this, I made a rectangle exactly 2x8.
If you now rotate this obect, it looks the same, only when placed
ontop of the existing gride its dimensions are now: 1.8x9

I know the grid is only rows/columns but shouldn't the object be close
to its original shape (even if the aspect ratio is turned on) when
rotated????

THanks.
 
Beachdude,
Sorry, I can't reproduce your scenario. My default font is Tahoma 9. When
I set column width at 2.00, for me this is 19 pixels, and to achieve square
cells, I set row height at 14.25, which is 19 pixels (varies somewhat with
default font). When you say you drew a rectangle 2x8, did you mean 2 cells
by 8 cells, or 2" by 8". I have done it both ways and in both cases the
size was exactly the same as the original, after I rotated the rectangle 90
degrees.

Regards,
Tom McNamara
 
Success - I knew it must have been something simple and reading the
reiterate of the steps fixed my problem. The missing piece was
adjusting the row height to match the column height. It never
occurred to me that putting the columns at 2.0 (or 19 pixels) while
leaving the rows at the standard default of 12.75 (17 pixels) would
cause the error.

While to the naked eye they seemed to be square, they were not. Those
2 pixels in the height were enough to drive the measurements off when
rotating.
Thanks... Problem solved. My floor plans now can be accurate.

AWESOME
 
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