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.
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I have a shape with a macro assigned to it. The problem is that the clickable area of this shape is way bigger than the shape itself and it span 2 rows. Is there a way to change the clickable area size so it is contained within the shape.
I noticed that this problem is affecting only the bottom side of the shape.
If there is no way to fix this issue, is there a better way to create a button in excel that is not as boring as the standard button?
Thanks
Buttons are boring.
You can make a far better button using a TextBox. Enter it like:
Then you can put text in the Shape and format the text.
Then right-click the Shape and select Format Shape at the bottom of the Context Menu.
You can add color to the shape and apply 3_D formatting. An example:
You can assign a macro to the TextBox just like a Button.
I have a problem with text boundary in Microsoft Word. It shows around the paragraph instead of the whole page.
Please could anyone help me to view this as a page boundary.
I take it that you are using Word 2013 or later. This is how the text boundaries now display. There is no option to make them display as they did in previous versions.
If you don't like it make your feelings known to Microsoft via User Voice.
There is an option in "Page Layout" to optimize your Margins. I assume, this is what you wanted. Else, please share more details.
The following is for Word 2013 - 2016
Select Design in Ribbon Menu
Click Page Borders
In Borders and Shadow dialog box
Choose Box, Shadow, 3D, or Custom type
Choose line style
Choose Color and Width
And finally select Whole Document in Apply To section
this is the display for office 2013 and 2016. if you use version 2010, you will get the whole page. enter image description here
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I have a square shape with shape data that can link fine to an excel spreadsheet, but I also have some shape text that displays on the shape. I believe you can link all of the shape text by using the link wizard and selecting shape::text or something very similar.
Is there a way to only link a piece of the shape text though? I don't want my first line of shape text linked to excel. Only the second line. e.g.
---square shape beginning---
(Unlinked text here)
(linked text here)
---square shape end---
If not, I'll just link all of the shape text. Just wondering if there's a way to only link part of it though.
You can't link shape text. Only shape data. But later, you can use that data as a field in the text.
First, you link data to shapes. Then you can edit shapes to use the linked content as a field. Means, you start editing shape text, set cursor position to the place where you want your (linked text) to appear, then use "Insert Field", and select the linked text property.
Microsoft is stingy and want you to upgrade your license so you can map external data to the shape text property . i wrote a little macro. this allows you to drag external data onto the Visio canvas and it will set the shape.Text. very simple, i use it to create uml class diagrams where i have lots of members i need to create. i load from an excel spreadsheet then i can drag and drop on to the canvas . remember to select the 'stencil control' before drag and dropping
Private Sub Document_ShapeAdded(ByVal Shape As IVShape)
externalDataColumnName = "Prop._VisDM_FIELDLIST"
'this is the property of the external data column header; look at shape sheet to get it
If Shape.CellExists(externalDataColumnName, 1) Then
Set celObj = Shape.Cells(externalDataColumnName)
Shape.Text = celObj.ResultStr("")
Shape.Cells("Char.Size").FormulaU = "8 pt"
End If
End Sub
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.
In Excel 2003 and earlier.. there is an option and "tear off menu" to do
Narrowest, Widest, Shortest, Tallest.
Say.. if I select 4 different rectangle shapes of different sizes.. (multi).. and
I click... "to widest"... all the shapes will be the same size (of the widest one).
Say... if I click to "shortest"... all shapes will match to the shortest height.
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This toolbar is not available in Excel 2010... Where to find it?
For your idea.. there is the Alight to Left, Right, Top and Bottom... in the Format Tab, Arrange Group.. Align (Drop Down).
I just need a similar one for Sizing the shapes.
Can someone help?
Excel 2003 was wonderful for this... And, with a "Tear menu" it was simply superb... and Excel 2010 is now backward.
Unfortunately it doesn't exist anymore not since 2007