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Error trying to adjust Text Block top margin
On a flowchart I have, if I try to change the Top Margin spec for a
given (or several) Text Block(s), I get a message citing Error 3400, Action 1642, and suggesting I close & reopen. Closing/reopening has no effect. I can't change the top margin on any of the shapes. There's nothing unusual about the diagram. It's got 7 shapes (all the same style), 6 connectors (ditto). One of the shapes is pretty full and I've done a fair amount of paragraph-space adjusting to fit all the text. The file was created just recently (and so was the template on which it's based). Other files allow this operation without problems. Any ideas how to fix this? Visio 2003, WinXP. Thanks, -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters |
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Are you setting the margin through the Text dialog or via the Shapesheet?
Does the other way also cause the same problem? -- Mark Nelson Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... On a flowchart I have, if I try to change the Top Margin spec for a given (or several) Text Block(s), I get a message citing Error 3400, Action 1642, and suggesting I close & reopen. Closing/reopening has no effect. I can't change the top margin on any of the shapes. There's nothing unusual about the diagram. It's got 7 shapes (all the same style), 6 connectors (ditto). One of the shapes is pretty full and I've done a fair amount of paragraph-space adjusting to fit all the text. The file was created just recently (and so was the template on which it's based). Other files allow this operation without problems. Any ideas how to fix this? Visio 2003, WinXP. Thanks, -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters |
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Are you setting the margin through the Text dialog or via the Shapesheet?
Does the other way also cause the same problem? -- Mark Nelson Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... On a flowchart I have, if I try to change the Top Margin spec for a given (or several) Text Block(s), I get a message citing Error 3400, Action 1642, and suggesting I close & reopen. Closing/reopening has no effect. I can't change the top margin on any of the shapes. There's nothing unusual about the diagram. It's got 7 shapes (all the same style), 6 connectors (ditto). One of the shapes is pretty full and I've done a fair amount of paragraph-space adjusting to fit all the text. The file was created just recently (and so was the template on which it's based). Other files allow this operation without problems. Any ideas how to fix this? Visio 2003, WinXP. Thanks, -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters |
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I'd been try to set it through the Text dialog. With the Shapesheet it
also fails, but with different error language: "An Error (1) occurred during the action Set Formula or Name. Unexpected end of file." Curious.... -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters Mark Nelson [MS] wrote: Are you setting the margin through the Text dialog or via the Shapesheet? Does the other way also cause the same problem? -- Mark Nelson Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... On a flowchart I have, if I try to change the Top Margin spec for a given (or several) Text Block(s), I get a message citing Error 3400, Action 1642, and suggesting I close & reopen. Closing/reopening has no effect. I can't change the top margin on any of the shapes. There's nothing unusual about the diagram. It's got 7 shapes (all the same style), 6 connectors (ditto). One of the shapes is pretty full and I've done a fair amount of paragraph-space adjusting to fit all the text. The file was created just recently (and so was the template on which it's based). Other files allow this operation without problems. Any ideas how to fix this? Visio 2003, WinXP. Thanks, -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters |
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I'd been try to set it through the Text dialog. With the Shapesheet it
also fails, but with different error language: "An Error (1) occurred during the action Set Formula or Name. Unexpected end of file." Curious.... -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters Mark Nelson [MS] wrote: Are you setting the margin through the Text dialog or via the Shapesheet? Does the other way also cause the same problem? -- Mark Nelson Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... On a flowchart I have, if I try to change the Top Margin spec for a given (or several) Text Block(s), I get a message citing Error 3400, Action 1642, and suggesting I close & reopen. Closing/reopening has no effect. I can't change the top margin on any of the shapes. There's nothing unusual about the diagram. It's got 7 shapes (all the same style), 6 connectors (ditto). One of the shapes is pretty full and I've done a fair amount of paragraph-space adjusting to fit all the text. The file was created just recently (and so was the template on which it's based). Other files allow this operation without problems. Any ideas how to fix this? Visio 2003, WinXP. Thanks, -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters |
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Very strange. You might try round-tripping the file through XML to see if
it can clean itself up. Save the document as VDX. Then open the file in Notepad or another editor. Make some harmless change like adding a space and deleting it again, then resave the file. Now reopen the file in Visio. -- Mark Nelson Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... I'd been try to set it through the Text dialog. With the Shapesheet it also fails, but with different error language: "An Error (1) occurred during the action Set Formula or Name. Unexpected end of file." Curious.... -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters Mark Nelson [MS] wrote: Are you setting the margin through the Text dialog or via the Shapesheet? Does the other way also cause the same problem? -- Mark Nelson Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... On a flowchart I have, if I try to change the Top Margin spec for a given (or several) Text Block(s), I get a message citing Error 3400, Action 1642, and suggesting I close & reopen. Closing/reopening has no effect. I can't change the top margin on any of the shapes. There's nothing unusual about the diagram. It's got 7 shapes (all the same style), 6 connectors (ditto). One of the shapes is pretty full and I've done a fair amount of paragraph-space adjusting to fit all the text. The file was created just recently (and so was the template on which it's based). Other files allow this operation without problems. Any ideas how to fix this? Visio 2003, WinXP. Thanks, -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters |
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Very strange. You might try round-tripping the file through XML to see if
it can clean itself up. Save the document as VDX. Then open the file in Notepad or another editor. Make some harmless change like adding a space and deleting it again, then resave the file. Now reopen the file in Visio. -- Mark Nelson Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... I'd been try to set it through the Text dialog. With the Shapesheet it also fails, but with different error language: "An Error (1) occurred during the action Set Formula or Name. Unexpected end of file." Curious.... -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters Mark Nelson [MS] wrote: Are you setting the margin through the Text dialog or via the Shapesheet? Does the other way also cause the same problem? -- Mark Nelson Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... On a flowchart I have, if I try to change the Top Margin spec for a given (or several) Text Block(s), I get a message citing Error 3400, Action 1642, and suggesting I close & reopen. Closing/reopening has no effect. I can't change the top margin on any of the shapes. There's nothing unusual about the diagram. It's got 7 shapes (all the same style), 6 connectors (ditto). One of the shapes is pretty full and I've done a fair amount of paragraph-space adjusting to fit all the text. The file was created just recently (and so was the template on which it's based). Other files allow this operation without problems. Any ideas how to fix this? Visio 2003, WinXP. Thanks, -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters |
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Mark,
Wow. This worked!! I confess I have absolutely NO CLUE what saving as XML actually *does*, but it sure banished the evil spirits. Is this essentially a way to "decompose" a drawing & then reassemble its freshly aired-out components? Thanks very much. -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters Mark Nelson [MS] wrote: Very strange. You might try round-tripping the file through XML to see if it can clean itself up. Save the document as VDX. Then open the file in Notepad or another editor. Make some harmless change like adding a space and deleting it again, then resave the file. Now reopen the file in Visio. -- Mark Nelson Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... I'd been try to set it through the Text dialog. With the Shapesheet it also fails, but with different error language: "An Error (1) occurred during the action Set Formula or Name. Unexpected end of file." Curious.... -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters Mark Nelson [MS] wrote: Are you setting the margin through the Text dialog or via the Shapesheet? Does the other way also cause the same problem? -- Mark Nelson Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... On a flowchart I have, if I try to change the Top Margin spec for a given (or several) Text Block(s), I get a message citing Error 3400, Action 1642, and suggesting I close & reopen. Closing/reopening has no effect. I can't change the top margin on any of the shapes. There's nothing unusual about the diagram. It's got 7 shapes (all the same style), 6 connectors (ditto). One of the shapes is pretty full and I've done a fair amount of paragraph-space adjusting to fit all the text. The file was created just recently (and so was the template on which it's based). Other files allow this operation without problems. Any ideas how to fix this? Visio 2003, WinXP. Thanks, -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters |
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Mark,
Wow. This worked!! I confess I have absolutely NO CLUE what saving as XML actually *does*, but it sure banished the evil spirits. Is this essentially a way to "decompose" a drawing & then reassemble its freshly aired-out components? Thanks very much. -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters Mark Nelson [MS] wrote: Very strange. You might try round-tripping the file through XML to see if it can clean itself up. Save the document as VDX. Then open the file in Notepad or another editor. Make some harmless change like adding a space and deleting it again, then resave the file. Now reopen the file in Visio. -- Mark Nelson Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... I'd been try to set it through the Text dialog. With the Shapesheet it also fails, but with different error language: "An Error (1) occurred during the action Set Formula or Name. Unexpected end of file." Curious.... -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters Mark Nelson [MS] wrote: Are you setting the margin through the Text dialog or via the Shapesheet? Does the other way also cause the same problem? -- Mark Nelson Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... On a flowchart I have, if I try to change the Top Margin spec for a given (or several) Text Block(s), I get a message citing Error 3400, Action 1642, and suggesting I close & reopen. Closing/reopening has no effect. I can't change the top margin on any of the shapes. There's nothing unusual about the diagram. It's got 7 shapes (all the same style), 6 connectors (ditto). One of the shapes is pretty full and I've done a fair amount of paragraph-space adjusting to fit all the text. The file was created just recently (and so was the template on which it's based). Other files allow this operation without problems. Any ideas how to fix this? Visio 2003, WinXP. Thanks, -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters |
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Yes, it is one method of cleaning out bad bits. Using "untrusted" XML in
Visio causes a total recalc of the shapesheet. This is great for rebuilding files but load time for the file is slower than binary or trusted XML. -- Mark Nelson Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... Mark, Wow. This worked!! I confess I have absolutely NO CLUE what saving as XML actually *does*, but it sure banished the evil spirits. Is this essentially a way to "decompose" a drawing & then reassemble its freshly aired-out components? Thanks very much. -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters Mark Nelson [MS] wrote: Very strange. You might try round-tripping the file through XML to see if it can clean itself up. Save the document as VDX. Then open the file in Notepad or another editor. Make some harmless change like adding a space and deleting it again, then resave the file. Now reopen the file in Visio. -- Mark Nelson Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... I'd been try to set it through the Text dialog. With the Shapesheet it also fails, but with different error language: "An Error (1) occurred during the action Set Formula or Name. Unexpected end of file." Curious.... -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters Mark Nelson [MS] wrote: Are you setting the margin through the Text dialog or via the Shapesheet? Does the other way also cause the same problem? -- Mark Nelson Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... On a flowchart I have, if I try to change the Top Margin spec for a given (or several) Text Block(s), I get a message citing Error 3400, Action 1642, and suggesting I close & reopen. Closing/reopening has no effect. I can't change the top margin on any of the shapes. There's nothing unusual about the diagram. It's got 7 shapes (all the same style), 6 connectors (ditto). One of the shapes is pretty full and I've done a fair amount of paragraph-space adjusting to fit all the text. The file was created just recently (and so was the template on which it's based). Other files allow this operation without problems. Any ideas how to fix this? Visio 2003, WinXP. Thanks, -- Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters |
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