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Is it possible to form a triangle with three lines as a group and then fill
it with some color? Doesn't seem to work for me. Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet -- "When you think about it, electricity is really just organized lightning." -- George Carlin Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews |
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No. Word isn't a graphics program, and even some of those won't do this for
you. ************ Hope it helps! Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "W. Watson" wrote in message ink.net... Is it possible to form a triangle with three lines as a group and then fill it with some color? Doesn't seem to work for me. Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet -- "When you think about it, electricity is really just organized lightning." -- George Carlin Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews |
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Although you can't do this with lines created with the Line tool, you can do
it using the Freeform AutoShape: 1. On the Drawing toolbar, choose AutoShapes | Lines | Freeform. Click to begin a line, drag, and click to end it, then drag to create the second side of the triangle, click to end it, drag to create the third side, ending where you began, and double-click to complete the triangle. 2. If the result displays as a filled AutoShape, you've achieved your purpose. 3. If not, right-click, choose Edit Points, and drag the last point on top of the first one. Then right-click and choose Close Path. You will then be able to fill the shape. (Tip: You can actually draw just two sides of the triangle, then use Close Path to create the third.) 4. If it's not quite the shape you want, use Edit Points to drag any vertex as desired. You can also change straight segments to curved and drag them to any shape you like, and you can add points for a more complex curve (and of course you can use the Curve tool to create curves to begin with). FWIW, this is a much more powerful and flexible drawing tool than Scribble IMO. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "W. Watson" wrote in message ink.net... Is it possible to form a triangle with three lines as a group and then fill it with some color? Doesn't seem to work for me. Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet -- "When you think about it, electricity is really just organized lightning." -- George Carlin Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews |
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Anne Troy wrote:
No. Word isn't a graphics program, and even some of those won't do this for you. ************ Hope it helps! Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "W. Watson" wrote in message ink.net... Is it possible to form a triangle with three lines as a group and then fill it with some color? Doesn't seem to work for me. Perhaps in the next version. Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet -- "When you think about it, electricity is really just organized lightning." -- George Carlin Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Although you can't do this with lines created with the Line tool, you can do it using the Freeform AutoShape: 1. On the Drawing toolbar, choose AutoShapes | Lines | Freeform. Click to begin a line, drag, and click to end it, then drag to create the second side of the triangle, click to end it, drag to create the third side, ending where you began, and double-click to complete the triangle. 2. If the result displays as a filled AutoShape, you've achieved your purpose. 3. If not, right-click, choose Edit Points, and drag the last point on top of the first one. Then right-click and choose Close Path. You will then be able to fill the shape. (Tip: You can actually draw just two sides of the triangle, then use Close Path to create the third.) 4. If it's not quite the shape you want, use Edit Points to drag any vertex as desired. You can also change straight segments to curved and drag them to any shape you like, and you can add points for a more complex curve (and of course you can use the Curve tool to create curves to begin with). FWIW, this is a much more powerful and flexible drawing tool than Scribble IMO. It's probably too labor intensive for my purposes. I thought there might be some hope when it seemed as though I accidentally did this. Upon futher examination I didn't. However, I made an interesting discovery--I think. I welded as a group two havlves of a long ellipse, and filled the result. Upon closer inspection, it looks like the two halves were really one ellipse. Interestingly, I was able to use a dashed line on the upper half and a solid line on the bottom. It seems a little odd to me. BTW, you can get some idea of what I'm trying to do by looking at http://www.tpub.com/content/engineering/14071/css/14071_342.htm. I colored the middle ellipse green, since it represents the ground. I then tried coloring in the area from the zenith down to the upper edge of the ground as light blue--the sky. Tricky to do, at least for me. Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet -- "When you think about it, electricity is really just organized lightning." -- George Carlin Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews |
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BTW, you can get some idea of what I'm trying to do by looking at
http://www.tpub.com/content/engineering/14071/css/14071_342.htm. I colored the middle ellipse green, since it represents the ground. I then tried coloring in the area from the zenith down to the upper edge of the ground as light blue--the sky. Tricky to do, at least for me. That's all very well, but I don't understand how it relates to the question about a triangle. Needless to say, you can create a triangle AutoShape simply enough, but I don't see what is at all labor-intensive about drawing two or three lines and filling them. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "W. Watson" wrote in message ink.net... Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Although you can't do this with lines created with the Line tool, you can do it using the Freeform AutoShape: 1. On the Drawing toolbar, choose AutoShapes | Lines | Freeform. Click to begin a line, drag, and click to end it, then drag to create the second side of the triangle, click to end it, drag to create the third side, ending where you began, and double-click to complete the triangle. 2. If the result displays as a filled AutoShape, you've achieved your purpose. 3. If not, right-click, choose Edit Points, and drag the last point on top of the first one. Then right-click and choose Close Path. You will then be able to fill the shape. (Tip: You can actually draw just two sides of the triangle, then use Close Path to create the third.) 4. If it's not quite the shape you want, use Edit Points to drag any vertex as desired. You can also change straight segments to curved and drag them to any shape you like, and you can add points for a more complex curve (and of course you can use the Curve tool to create curves to begin with). FWIW, this is a much more powerful and flexible drawing tool than Scribble IMO. It's probably too labor intensive for my purposes. I thought there might be some hope when it seemed as though I accidentally did this. Upon futher examination I didn't. However, I made an interesting discovery--I think. I welded as a group two havlves of a long ellipse, and filled the result. Upon closer inspection, it looks like the two halves were really one ellipse. Interestingly, I was able to use a dashed line on the upper half and a solid line on the bottom. It seems a little odd to me. BTW, you can get some idea of what I'm trying to do by looking at http://www.tpub.com/content/engineering/14071/css/14071_342.htm. I colored the middle ellipse green, since it represents the ground. I then tried coloring in the area from the zenith down to the upper edge of the ground as light blue--the sky. Tricky to do, at least for me. Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet -- "When you think about it, electricity is really just organized lightning." -- George Carlin Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews |
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Display the Drawing toolbar and select Basic Shapes from the Autoshapes
item. Insert the triangle that you want, then from the Format menu, select Borders and Shading and select the colour that you want for the Fill. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "W. Watson" wrote in message ink.net... Is it possible to form a triangle with three lines as a group and then fill it with some color? Doesn't seem to work for me. Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet -- "When you think about it, electricity is really just organized lightning." -- George Carlin Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
BTW, you can get some idea of what I'm trying to do by looking at http://www.tpub.com/content/engineering/14071/css/14071_342.htm. I colored the middle ellipse green, since it represents the ground. I then tried coloring in the area from the zenith down to the upper edge of the ground as light blue--the sky. Tricky to do, at least for me. That's all very well, but I don't understand how it relates to the question about a triangle. Needless to say, you can create a triangle AutoShape simply enough, but I don't see what is at all labor-intensive about drawing two or three lines and filling them. I used the triangle as an example. The real problem is much more complex, but simply boils down to the example. It's item 4 that gets to the difficulty--I'm not dealing with a triangle, but much more complex figures, and several of them. Creating curves to the shape I desire would be a formidable task. Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet -- "When you think about it, electricity is really just organized lightning." -- George Carlin Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews |
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Use something like TurboCAD. Word is basically a word processing program
with some (limited) graphics capability. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "W. Watson" wrote in message nk.net... Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: BTW, you can get some idea of what I'm trying to do by looking at http://www.tpub.com/content/engineering/14071/css/14071_342.htm. I colored the middle ellipse green, since it represents the ground. I then tried coloring in the area from the zenith down to the upper edge of the ground as light blue--the sky. Tricky to do, at least for me. That's all very well, but I don't understand how it relates to the question about a triangle. Needless to say, you can create a triangle AutoShape simply enough, but I don't see what is at all labor-intensive about drawing two or three lines and filling them. I used the triangle as an example. The real problem is much more complex, but simply boils down to the example. It's item 4 that gets to the difficulty--I'm not dealing with a triangle, but much more complex figures, and several of them. Creating curves to the shape I desire would be a formidable task. Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet -- "When you think about it, electricity is really just organized lightning." -- George Carlin Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews |
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