How can I make this permanent ?

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Albert Godfrind

Is there a way to make the setting for "resize autoshape to fit text" permanent ? I.e turn it off for all shapes I draw in a presentation ?

I do a lot of drawings and this is driving me nuts. Every time I draw a shape I need to manually change the setting (right click etc). A real pain! I never had to do this in my previous office version.

Albert



Steve Rindsberg wrote:

Re: Copying from one ppt to another resizes objects
09-Jan-09

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Copying from one ppt to another resizes objects
I am using Powerpoint 2000 with Windows XP Pro SP3

I made a powerpoint for screen presentation and now I am copying the
contents of slides into a new powerpoint with a different page size to be
used as figures in a report. Certain objects - rectangular boxes, and oval
shapes - copy correctly at first but as soon as I move them in the new ppt
they get resized. What's more, in some cases they won't allow me to increase
the size beyond a certain limit to get them to the size they were in the
original. I assume something has been set in the new ppt which is affecting
the size of these objects. Can anyone help and suggest what I can to to stop
this happening

Grateful for advice.

It turned out not to have anything to do with copying and pasting.
It turned out not to have anything to do with copying and pasting. Instead,
certain objects had been set to "resize autoshape to fit text". When you try
to move an object with this setting it immediately changes its height to a
fixed value, and doesn't allow you to change it

Now, I suppose I need a macro to try and clear that resize setting from all
shapes which don't have any text. Grateful for thoughts on how to do this.

Re: Copying from one ppt to another resizes objects

Sure ... this should take care of it (but please: test it on a COPY of your
valuable presentation, NOT the original)

Sub DueAutoFit(
Dim oSl As Slid
Dim oSh As Shap

For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slide
For Each oSh In oSl.Shape
With oS
If .HasTextFrame The
If Not .TextFrame.HasText The
.TextFrame.AutoSize = ppAutoSizeNon
End I
End I
End Wit
Nex
Nex

End Su

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Many thanks for this.
Many thanks for this.

Re: Copying from one ppt to another resizes objects
wrote

My pleasur

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http://www.pptfaq.com

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http://www.pptools.com/


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Is there a way to make the setting for "resize autoshape to fit text"
permanent ? I.e turn it off for all shapes I draw in a presentation ?

I do a lot of drawings and this is driving me nuts. Every time I draw a
shape I need to manually change the setting (right click etc). A real
pain! I never had to do this in my previous office version.

Albert



Steve Rindsberg wrote:

Re: Copying from one ppt to another resizes objects
09-Jan-09

wrote:

My pleasure

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http://www.pptfaq.com/

PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint
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Previous Posts In This Thread:

Copying from one ppt to another resizes objects
I am using Powerpoint 2000 with Windows XP Pro SP3.

I made a powerpoint for screen presentation and now I am copying the
contents of slides into a new powerpoint with a different page size to be
used as figures in a report. Certain objects - rectangular boxes, and oval
shapes - copy correctly at first but as soon as I move them in the new ppt
they get resized. What's more, in some cases they won't allow me to
increase
the size beyond a certain limit to get them to the size they were in the
original. I assume something has been set in the new ppt which is
affecting
the size of these objects. Can anyone help and suggest what I can to to
stop
this happening?

Grateful for advice.

It turned out not to have anything to do with copying and pasting.
It turned out not to have anything to do with copying and pasting.
Instead,
certain objects had been set to "resize autoshape to fit text". When you
try
to move an object with this setting it immediately changes its height to
a
fixed value, and doesn't allow you to change it.

Now, I suppose I need a macro to try and clear that resize setting from
all
shapes which don't have any text. Grateful for thoughts on how to do this.

Re: Copying from one ppt to another resizes objects
Sure ... this should take care of it (but please: test it on a COPY of
your
valuable presentation, NOT the original):

Sub DueAutoFit()
Dim oSl As Slide
Dim oSh As Shape

For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each oSh In oSl.Shapes
With oSh
If .HasTextFrame Then
If Not .TextFrame.HasText Then
.TextFrame.AutoSize = ppAutoSizeNone
End If
End If
End With
Next
Next

End Sub

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http://www.pptfaq.com/

PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint
http://www.pptools.com/

Many thanks for this.
Many thanks for this.

Re: Copying from one ppt to another resizes objects
wrote:

My pleasure

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http://www.pptfaq.com/

PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint
http://www.pptools.com/


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