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Text Box Multi-line
I stumbled across the Text Box, Multi-Line (the one with sliders) and
attempted to use it on an Organization Chart. Every time I pasted text into the box, the box would automatically expand to accomodate the text making the sliders superfluous. Text was never hidden so the sliders were of no use. The problem is that the amount of text makes the text box overwhelm the rest of the drawing - the text box would only have value if large amounts of text was hidden and was accessed by scrolling the text with the sliders. What am I doing wrong? I know some shapes lose functionality if they are dropped onto the wrong type of drawing. Thanks. |
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On Wed, 13 May 2009 19:50:01 -0700, LawStudent
wrote: I stumbled across the Text Box, Multi-Line (the one with sliders) and attempted to use it on an Organization Chart. Every time I pasted text into the box, the box would automatically expand to accomodate the text making the sliders superfluous. Text was never hidden so the sliders were of no use. The problem is that the amount of text makes the text box overwhelm the rest of the drawing - the text box would only have value if large amounts of text was hidden and was accessed by scrolling the text with the sliders. What am I doing wrong? I know some shapes lose functionality if they are dropped onto the wrong type of drawing. That's a limitation of all Visio shapes as fas as I know. However, there is a shape that you can use, well, it's an ActiveX control. menu Insert - Control and select Microsoft Rich Text control Visio will be put into design mode so you can size the control, double-clicking brings up the properties dialog. (To change between design and normal mode you will need the developer toolbar (menu View - Toolbars)) Back in mormal mode allows you to enter text. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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Text Box Multi-line
Thank you sir. You have really helped me out. Thanks for doing this for us.
"Paul Herber" wrote: On Wed, 13 May 2009 19:50:01 -0700, LawStudent wrote: I stumbled across the Text Box, Multi-Line (the one with sliders) and attempted to use it on an Organization Chart. Every time I pasted text into the box, the box would automatically expand to accomodate the text making the sliders superfluous. Text was never hidden so the sliders were of no use. The problem is that the amount of text makes the text box overwhelm the rest of the drawing - the text box would only have value if large amounts of text was hidden and was accessed by scrolling the text with the sliders. What am I doing wrong? I know some shapes lose functionality if they are dropped onto the wrong type of drawing. That's a limitation of all Visio shapes as fas as I know. However, there is a shape that you can use, well, it's an ActiveX control. menu Insert - Control and select Microsoft Rich Text control Visio will be put into design mode so you can size the control, double-clicking brings up the properties dialog. (To change between design and normal mode you will need the developer toolbar (menu View - Toolbars)) Back in mormal mode allows you to enter text. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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Text Box Multi-line
Well, it worked just like you said it would except, the horizontal slider
appears for an instant, and then disappears. The vertical slider works per usual... "Paul Herber" wrote: On Wed, 13 May 2009 19:50:01 -0700, LawStudent wrote: I stumbled across the Text Box, Multi-Line (the one with sliders) and attempted to use it on an Organization Chart. Every time I pasted text into the box, the box would automatically expand to accomodate the text making the sliders superfluous. Text was never hidden so the sliders were of no use. The problem is that the amount of text makes the text box overwhelm the rest of the drawing - the text box would only have value if large amounts of text was hidden and was accessed by scrolling the text with the sliders. What am I doing wrong? I know some shapes lose functionality if they are dropped onto the wrong type of drawing. That's a limitation of all Visio shapes as fas as I know. However, there is a shape that you can use, well, it's an ActiveX control. menu Insert - Control and select Microsoft Rich Text control Visio will be put into design mode so you can size the control, double-clicking brings up the properties dialog. (To change between design and normal mode you will need the developer toolbar (menu View - Toolbars)) Back in mormal mode allows you to enter text. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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Text Box Multi-line
On Thu, 14 May 2009 16:12:01 -0700, LawStudent
wrote: Well, it worked just like you said it would except, the horizontal slider appears for an instant, and then disappears. The vertical slider works per usual... True, it looks like the logic controlling the scroll bar visibility is being overridden by the multiline option. I have had both scrollers visible, however, in that case the control actually deleted part of my text! There seems to be alternatives though. Google finds stuff. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Electronics for Visio http://www.electronics.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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