Snip of signage added to cupboard door pic I would like to match the angle of the inserted image on the cupboard to the lines of the cupboard door. If this inserted jpeg was a "shape" you could do that. A Jpeg or photo seems much more difficult. Highlighting the photo on Excel and right clicking doesn't give you the "Edit Points" option.
I tried grouping a shape and the photo then the "edit points" still only edits the shape.
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I'm unable to control the text direction when text is embedded in a shape or a text box.
For example, the shape below is rotated 90 degrees, and the text is rotating with it as well, but I need it to appear normal, which is horizontal
click here to see an image showing this problem
Any way to do this in pptx or otherwise?
In Powerpoint (15.13.1 for Mac OS X) I can find the option to crop an image to a shape but I can't find how to crop it to text. Can anyone enlighten me please ?
There's PowerPoint 2010, 2013 and 2016 but no 2015. Which do you have?
There's no way I know to crop a picture to text, but you can fake it. In (as I recall) PPT 2013 or maybe 2010 and later you can do this:
Insert a picture and send it behind the text you want to fill with a picture.
Select the picture then hold down Ctrl while you click the text to select it too. It has to be done in this order or it won't work.
Under Drawing Tools, the Format tab, Insert Shapes group, click Merge Shapes and choose Intersect.
Another trick is to intersect the text with a plain rectangle. This converts the text to a shape that can be filled with a picture.
I have added a note with about 50 lines of text to an UML diagram in Visio 2010, and I can't resize the shape. I can see connection points, but not the blue ones that you can drag to resize the shape. Modifying the height manually through View menu, Task Panes, Size & Position, doesn't work either.
You can format the text using shift / enter for line breaks to change the shape of the text which will change the shape of the box. Not elegant but workable.
Tested and works in Visio 2010
i. Select the shape
Select the Developer ribbon. (You may need to make this visible by right clicking on the ribbon>Customize the Ribbon> Tick the Developer box)
(Developer ribbon) From "Shape Design" select "Protection". Untick both Width & Height
(Developer ribbon) From "Shape Design" select "Show ShapeSheet" > "Shape"
Within the "Shape Transform" table remove "GUARD" from the width and height cells
N.B This will work for with a singly selected shape, not a group. By copying the modified shape the shapes settings will remain with the copy although this seems to result in the text field in the copy being uneditable.
A note usually can only be resize to the minimum size of the letters inside. I mean that you resize the size of caracters or the shape of the note in order to get the smaller rectangle or square and the note should automatically resize themselves. If not this is a bug !!
http://www.softwarestencils.com/uml/#Visio2010 fixed this problem for me. If you want to have complete control over the formatting, this is the "only" way (at least that I've found) that doesn't cost anything.
I Have created a bar chart in a 2007 .xls file, but the data labels cannot be resized. When you go to the "format Data Labels" and then click on alignment, the Autofit and Internal Margin option is grayed out. Anyone know why?
Short version: It is greyed out for chart text, because it the option doesn’t apply.
Long version:
This is because on a chart, chart text do need to use margins, rather you can you can just move the text., and set its X and Y position. For example take the Chart Title, if you want more space to the left, just click and drag the title to the right. If you want the chart title to be bigger you just set a larger font, you have complete control over the title, as well as all other text on that chart, axis titles, legends, data labels, etc.
Internal margins are meant to be used when you don’t have complete control take for example text in a shape. If you insert a shape in your workbook, and add text to it, you cannot just pick the text up and move it to the right if you want more space on the left, so you can set the margin.
Here's a trick that worked for me:
My problem was: I added more text to the axis title and it was too long for it's original shape so some text went into second line.
My solution: I type the complete text somewhere else, copy the text, double click on the axis title and delete the original text -- the cursor would still be there -- now insert the copied text. Done! They are all in one line!
Partial solution to resize label to a single line: Data labels in a chart will often wrap themselves, when you dont want them to. They would often seem better in a vertical single line above the graph item. Reset them to one single line by editing the text in the label, deleting the Excel imposed return, and replace it with a space. The line, and label box, will resize to fit a single line. However because you have "manually interfered with the lable, it will no longer update for changing graph data. You would have to double click each lable then reset it. Most annoying.
A way around it is to make the chart area big. The data label boxes will resize to fit the words in one line. Then make the chart small (not the chart area).
Manually insert a textbox into the bar chart and type in the label that way. It's annoying and labor-intensive, but it works.
I'd like to automatically pad my shapes with some space so that connectors (e.g. arrows) do not touch the shape, but instead are a few pixels away.
This can be achieved by moving the shape connector points away from the shape, but this is a manual, time consuming process which needs to be done per shape which I would like to avoid.
How can I automatically insert a fixed amount of space between connectors and shapes?
You can do this with a Custom Line End.
If the Drawing Explorer Window is not shown then View Menu > Drawing Explorer Window.
In the Drawing Explorer Window right click on the Line Ends folder.
Click New Pattern.
Give the Line End a name and select Scaled. Click OK.
Right click on the new Line End.
Click on Edit Pattern Shape.
Draw a small line end e.g. an arrow about 0.125 in square or 3 mm square. The arrow should point to the right.
If there line end you created is made of more than one shape group it, e.g. Ctrl+A then Ctrl+G.
Zoom in closely to the shape.
Make sure the Pointer Tool is selected in the Standard Toolbar.
Select the shape.
Mouse over the Shape Rotation Handle e.g. the lollypop.
A new handle should appear with the tooltip Center of Rotation.
Move this handle outside the shape to the right. How far you move will control the offset of your line from the shapes. See image:
Close the Pattern Shape window.
Click Yes to save the pattern.
Select all the lines you want to use the new Line Pattern with.
Format Menu > Line
Change the Line ends: Begin and Line ends: End to the name of your new Line End. The name will be at the bottom of the list.
The lines begin and ends should now appear offset from the shapes they are connected to.
These instructions are for versions of Visio prior to Visio 2010. In Visio 2010 the menu items described are replace with buttons in the ribbon.