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Text boxes in Flowchart
Hi....
I've got a lot of flowcharts originally made in excel - I copied the flowcharts to a word (2003) document and populated the flowchart with text boxes with the appropriate text in them, taking a long time to format and center the text. I now need to copy the completed flowcharts to another master word document containing all of them, as well as other documents. I've tried insert 'File', which def doesn't work; insert 'object' which def doesn't work, which left me with the tried and trusted copy and paste, which NEARLY worked - the problem is that although the tables copy over perfectly, the text in the text boxes seems to acquire indents which makes all the text start from the centre of the text boxes and left-aligned, if you know what I mean? Is there any way to copy these flowcharts as-is, or a way to move the indents (not one at a time) back to their original position as there are about 40 flowcharts in total with approx 20-30 text boxes in each one! Many Thanks |
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Text boxes in Flowchart
The problem is that the pasted objects are taking on the properties of a
style in the target document. You might be able to fix the problem fairly quickly by defining a new style that presents the textbox text as you want it (ie centered and whatever), then apply that to each of the textboxes. For future reference, a) don't apply formatting manually, and b) don't use Word for serious graphic tasks like creating flowcharts. If you really must create flowcharts (and their value as documentation is *extremely* dubious), use Visio. "Brainfire" wrote in message ps.com... Hi.... I've got a lot of flowcharts originally made in excel - I copied the flowcharts to a word (2003) document and populated the flowchart with text boxes with the appropriate text in them, taking a long time to format and center the text. I now need to copy the completed flowcharts to another master word document containing all of them, as well as other documents. I've tried insert 'File', which def doesn't work; insert 'object' which def doesn't work, which left me with the tried and trusted copy and paste, which NEARLY worked - the problem is that although the tables copy over perfectly, the text in the text boxes seems to acquire indents which makes all the text start from the centre of the text boxes and left-aligned, if you know what I mean? Is there any way to copy these flowcharts as-is, or a way to move the indents (not one at a time) back to their original position as there are about 40 flowcharts in total with approx 20-30 text boxes in each one! Many Thanks |
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Text boxes in Flowchart
Hi bf
Brainfire wrote: I've got a lot of flowcharts originally made in excel - I copied the flowcharts to a word (2003) document and populated the flowchart with text boxes with the appropriate text in them, taking a long time to format and center the text. I now need to copy the completed flowcharts to another master word document containing all of them, as well as other documents. Combining material from different Word documents into one is a tough thing to try, when formatting needs to be stable. The usual thing that lets you stumble is styles: if you use the same style in both the source and the target, but with different settings (i.e., different font size in one document), then you've got a problem. [It could even be that the two styles are defined in the same way, but their parent style differs ....] Graphical objects anchored to some paragraph or other (as the Text boxes in your case) add another layer of possible grief. I've tried insert 'File', which def doesn't work; Why not, i.e.: what fails? insert 'object' which def doesn't work, Correct, that will not work for anything larger than 1 page. which left me with the tried and trusted copy and paste, which NEARLY worked - the problem is that although the tables copy over perfectly, the text in the text boxes seems to acquire indents which makes all the text start from the centre of the text boxes and left-aligned, if you know what I mean? Position the cursor in one Text box: what style is set there? Any direct formatting? Use the "Reveal Formatting" Toolbar (in both source and target document) to spot differences. Is there any way to copy these flowcharts as-is, or a way to move the indents (not one at a time) back to their original position as there are about 40 flowcharts in total with approx 20-30 text boxes in each one! If the style has an indent in the new document, and is used uniquely in the documents (i.e., only is used in the Text boxes), the answer is simple: adjust the style. If the style does not have an indent, and no direct formatting, it could be some Text box margin setting. You'll probably have to visit each Text box, manually or via VBA, to put things right. Same goes if the it's direct formatting, of if the style is not unique (and, I'm afraid, there's a big probability it isn't unique IMHO). HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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