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