Help with Autoshapes changing size on me

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I have a persistent recurring problem in PPT: Sometimes I'll insert an autoshape into a ppt slide, like a block arrow. Then I decide to change the color by clicking a corner of the arrow and clicking the "paint bucket" and selecting a new color. All too often, once I click the new color the autoshape has resized itself on me (usually to a smaller/thinner shape).

Does anyone know if I can make this stop? It's driving me crazy. Thanks in advance!
 
Microsoft has a helpful feature for novice users (who do not know how to
format a slide). It sounds like you are not in this category and the
feature is no longer helpful.

Perhaps it is the auto-format that is disrupting your layout. To turn off
this feature:
click on Tools | AutoCorrections Options... | AutoFormat as you type ...
(tab)
Uncheck Automatic Layout for inserted objects.


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Marlena said:
I have a persistent recurring problem in PPT: Sometimes I'll insert an
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autoshape into a ppt slide, like a block arrow. Then I decide to change the
color by clicking a corner of the arrow and clicking the "paint bucket" and
selecting a new color. All too often, once I click the new color the
autoshape has resized itself on me (usually to a smaller/thinner shape).
Does anyone know if I can make this stop? It's driving me crazy. Thanks in
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advance!
 
I have a persistent recurring problem in PPT: Sometimes I'll insert an
autoshape into a ppt slide, like a block arrow. Then I decide to change
the color by clicking a corner of the arrow and clicking the "paint
bucket" and selecting a new color. All too often, once I click the new
color the autoshape has resized itself on me (usually to a smaller/thinner
shape).

Try clicking anywhere on the arrow but the corner ... when you click the
corner ... or at least one of the selection handles that appears in the
corner when the shape's selected ... this is what I'm guessing you mean?
... where were we? Oh. When you click one of them, that's telling PPT "I
want to resize this." So if you wiggle your mouse in the least at the
same time, it does resize.
 
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