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Getting multiple font colors to "stick" in Visio 2007
Our group has inherited an org chart. In this chart, each division and
branch has a box. Within that box, the chart creator typed the name of every employee who is in that division or branch. The employee's names have a font color that identifies the TYPE of employee. E.g. red for government employees, green for contractors, blue for vacant positions. There is a lot of turnover in our organization and we are constantly having to update the names/vacancies in the boxes. When we edit a box, the text all turns black and we have to reapply the color formatting to every name in the box. Is there any way around this? Is there any way to have Visio retain the original font colors when we edit the boxes? Thanks very much for any help you can give us. -- Ann Scharpf |
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Getting multiple font colors to "stick" in Visio 2007
Ann the behavior you are seeing seems to be the default behavior. However you
can modify the shapesheet property for the object so that it should retain the color you originally assigned to the font. In Visio 2007 click on the object you want to work with. Select window from the main toolbar and locate Show Shapesheet for the desired object. The shapesheet for the object should now be displayed. Right mouse click in the Shapesheet space, a menu should pop up, verify that formulas has a check next to it. Also click on View Sections and verify that a check has been placed in the character box, click ok. Go back to the shapesheet window and scroll down to the character section. In this row locate the color column. Click on this section with your mouse this will activate this cell so that it will display in the box near the top of the page which has an x and a check mark next to it. Take note of the number in the box you will need to enter this number later in a formula. Type the following to protect the color for this object, GUARD(enter your number) press enter. GUARD will protect the color assigned to the shape’s text. So if there was a number 4 originally in this cell it should look like this GUARD(4) -- James W. "Ann Scharpf" wrote: Our group has inherited an org chart. In this chart, each division and branch has a box. Within that box, the chart creator typed the name of every employee who is in that division or branch. The employee's names have a font color that identifies the TYPE of employee. E.g. red for government employees, green for contractors, blue for vacant positions. There is a lot of turnover in our organization and we are constantly having to update the names/vacancies in the boxes. When we edit a box, the text all turns black and we have to reapply the color formatting to every name in the box. Is there any way around this? Is there any way to have Visio retain the original font colors when we edit the boxes? Thanks very much for any help you can give us. -- Ann Scharpf |
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