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Publisher Measurement Toolbar
Half the toolbar for measurement is non avtive and will not measure an object. The help menus do not address activation of this feature. How do you display or draw an objects measurments?
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Left something out of the orginial post. Publisher 2003 on XP system.
"Jeff w" wrote: Half the toolbar for measurement is non avtive and will not measure an object. The help menus do not address activation of this feature. How do you display or draw an objects measurments? |
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Hold shift and drag the ruler(s). Select the object, right-click, click format
object (picture), the size is in the dialogue and can be adjusted. Tick the "Lock aspect ratio" and you can adjust by percentage. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Jeff w" Jeff wrote in message ... Half the toolbar for measurement is non avtive and will not measure an object. The help menus do not address activation of this feature. How do you display or draw an objects measurments? |
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I see what your are addressing which is the dimentions of an object can be displayed via a dialogue box. What I am looking for is a CAD feature that would add a dimention to an object; ie: a size (height and width) and arrows that would change on the screen object as the object is resized and would remain on each object drawn. This may be beyond the capabilites of the program and I was mis-reading the measure dialogue box. Maybe in the next version. I was doing a simple floor plan drawing for a remodel to illustrate changes for the wife. I'll go back to paper and pencil. Thanks for your time.
"Mary Sauer" wrote: Hold shift and drag the ruler(s). Select the object, right-click, click format object (picture), the size is in the dialogue and can be adjusted. Tick the "Lock aspect ratio" and you can adjust by percentage. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Jeff w" Jeff wrote in message ... Half the toolbar for measurement is non avtive and will not measure an object. The help menus do not address activation of this feature. How do you display or draw an objects measurments? |
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Jeff how come you are not using the *awesome* Serif DrawPlus 7.0
One of DrawPlus magic features is it draw to scale option. DrawPlus is just a magic program. -- "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there!" |
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Hi °°MS-Publisher°° ),
in the newsgroups you posted: | Jeff how come you are not using the *awesome* Serif DrawPlus 7.0 | One of DrawPlus magic features is it draw to scale option. | DrawPlus is just a magic program. Blah! Microsoft Expression 3.3 and PhotoDraw 2000 v2 are MAGIC drawing programs. -- Brian Kvalheim Microsoft Publisher MVP http://www.publishermvps.com ~pay it forward~ This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. |
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Brian K do they do scale with measurements and the ability to show the
measurments??? Are they VECTOR and Bitmapped??? Now, PhotoDraw was such a disgusting mega dog of a product MS took it off the market!!! Expression where did that pop up from. Did MS buy some one man band shareware programmer out? Expression must be of mighty dubious value if I have never heard of it. -- "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there!" |
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David, Try it... Free for the download... Need a passport sign-in
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/ -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "°°MS-Publisher°°" wrote in message ... Brian K do they do scale with measurements and the ability to show the measurments??? Are they VECTOR and Bitmapped??? Now, PhotoDraw was such a disgusting mega dog of a product MS took it off the market!!! Expression where did that pop up from. Did MS buy some one man band shareware programmer out? Expression must be of mighty dubious value if I have never heard of it. -- "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there!" |
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Mary certainly looks interesting and could be a handy weapon in the arsenal,
however, you cannot buy it here and really have sufficient drawing programs. Serif have Fringe Textures and Real-time Reflection for close to two years now. Overall DrawPlus has substantially more features than Expression. Thanks for the link. -- "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there!" |
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I searched the Draw Plus and the UK web site says it is not XP compatiable so I'll skip that one. The Expressions is kind artsy craftsy so I'll stick to my Adobe CS products and the PhotoDraw I used to have until MS stopped supporting it. I'll keep looking.
"°°MS-Publisher°°" wrote: Mary certainly looks interesting and could be a handy weapon in the arsenal, however, you cannot buy it here and really have sufficient drawing programs. Serif have Fringe Textures and Real-time Reflection for close to two years now. Overall DrawPlus has substantially more features than Expression. Thanks for the link. -- "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there!" |
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