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"Edit Text" Menu Item
I'm trying to create a graphics file (tried to create a wmf, but any vector
graphics format would do), which would expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when added as a Clip Art to a PowerPoint slide. Many of the Clip Art wmf files that ship with PowerPoint expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when right-clicking the image on a slide (eg. ?). Nevertheless, none of the wmf files that I have created (with several applications) expose the "Edit Text" menu item. I need to create files, because they will be distributed to users (together with other files), who will then add the images to their slides - just like the Clip Art images that ships with PowerPoint. |
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"Edit Text" Menu Item
In article , Steelwire
wrote: I'm trying to create a graphics file (tried to create a wmf, but any vector graphics format would do), which would expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when added as a Clip Art to a PowerPoint slide. Many of the Clip Art wmf files that ship with PowerPoint expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when right-clicking the image on a slide (eg. ?). Which ones specifically, and what version of PPT do you use? Nevertheless, none of the wmf files that I have created (with several applications) expose the "Edit Text" menu item. I need to create files, because they will be distributed to users (together with other files), who will then add the images to their slides - just like the Clip Art images that ships with PowerPoint. ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ |
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"Edit Text" Menu Item
BD18204_.wmf is a file that ships with PowerPoint and exposes the "Edit Text"
menu. So far, we've tried with PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2007. "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: I'm trying to create a graphics file (tried to create a wmf, but any vector graphics format would do), which would expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when added as a Clip Art to a PowerPoint slide. Many of the Clip Art wmf files that ship with PowerPoint expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when right-clicking the image on a slide (eg. ?). Which ones specifically, and what version of PPT do you use? Nevertheless, none of the wmf files that I have created (with several applications) expose the "Edit Text" menu item. I need to create files, because they will be distributed to users (together with other files), who will then add the images to their slides - just like the Clip Art images that ships with PowerPoint. ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ |
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"Edit Text" Menu Item
In article , Steelwire wrote:
BD18204_.wmf is a file that ships with PowerPoint and exposes the "Edit Text" menu. So far, we've tried with PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2007. For whatever reason, I don't have that one. Any chance you could email me a copy to poke at? Remind me in the email what this is about, attach the file and email to steve at-sign pptools dot com "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: I'm trying to create a graphics file (tried to create a wmf, but any vector graphics format would do), which would expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when added as a Clip Art to a PowerPoint slide. Many of the Clip Art wmf files that ship with PowerPoint expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when right-clicking the image on a slide (eg. ?). Which ones specifically, and what version of PPT do you use? Nevertheless, none of the wmf files that I have created (with several applications) expose the "Edit Text" menu item. I need to create files, because they will be distributed to users (together with other files), who will then add the images to their slides - just like the Clip Art images that ships with PowerPoint. ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ |
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"Edit Text" Menu Item
On my box, it's at C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\MEDIA\OFFICE12\AutoShap\BD18204_.wmf, but most (if not all) of the files in that directory expose the "Edit Text" menu. "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: BD18204_.wmf is a file that ships with PowerPoint and exposes the "Edit Text" menu. So far, we've tried with PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2007. For whatever reason, I don't have that one. Any chance you could email me a copy to poke at? Remind me in the email what this is about, attach the file and email to steve at-sign pptools dot com "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: I'm trying to create a graphics file (tried to create a wmf, but any vector graphics format would do), which would expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when added as a Clip Art to a PowerPoint slide. Many of the Clip Art wmf files that ship with PowerPoint expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when right-clicking the image on a slide (eg. ?). Which ones specifically, and what version of PPT do you use? Nevertheless, none of the wmf files that I have created (with several applications) expose the "Edit Text" menu item. I need to create files, because they will be distributed to users (together with other files), who will then add the images to their slides - just like the Clip Art images that ships with PowerPoint. ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ |
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"Edit Text" Menu Item
In article , Steelwire wrote:
On my box, it's at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\MEDIA\OFFICE12\AutoShap\BD18204_.wmf, but most (if not all) of the files in that directory expose the "Edit Text" menu. Bingo ... I have that. No need to respond to my email from earlier. From looking at the insides of the file, I'm guessing that it's got a bit of extra data added to it that tells Office to treat it as an AutoShape rather than an ordinary imported graphic. It might be worth inserting a few of these, saving them out again as WMF and then comparing the two files to see how they differ and if there's any pattern. "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: BD18204_.wmf is a file that ships with PowerPoint and exposes the "Edit Text" menu. So far, we've tried with PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2007. For whatever reason, I don't have that one. Any chance you could email me a copy to poke at? Remind me in the email what this is about, attach the file and email to steve at-sign pptools dot com "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: I'm trying to create a graphics file (tried to create a wmf, but any vector graphics format would do), which would expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when added as a Clip Art to a PowerPoint slide. Many of the Clip Art wmf files that ship with PowerPoint expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when right-clicking the image on a slide (eg. ?). Which ones specifically, and what version of PPT do you use? Nevertheless, none of the wmf files that I have created (with several applications) expose the "Edit Text" menu item. I need to create files, because they will be distributed to users (together with other files), who will then add the images to their slides - just like the Clip Art images that ships with PowerPoint. ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ |
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"Edit Text" Menu Item
That's what we've tried to do, but it seems this "extra data" is in some
undocumented format (we haven't been able to access it using the Win32 API wmf functions), so we haven't been able to add it to wmf files we've created ourselves. Nor have we found any application that's capable of creating wmf files that expose the "Edit Text" menu item. "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: On my box, it's at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\MEDIA\OFFICE12\AutoShap\BD18204_.wmf, but most (if not all) of the files in that directory expose the "Edit Text" menu. Bingo ... I have that. No need to respond to my email from earlier. From looking at the insides of the file, I'm guessing that it's got a bit of extra data added to it that tells Office to treat it as an AutoShape rather than an ordinary imported graphic. It might be worth inserting a few of these, saving them out again as WMF and then comparing the two files to see how they differ and if there's any pattern. "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: BD18204_.wmf is a file that ships with PowerPoint and exposes the "Edit Text" menu. So far, we've tried with PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2007. For whatever reason, I don't have that one. Any chance you could email me a copy to poke at? Remind me in the email what this is about, attach the file and email to steve at-sign pptools dot com "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: I'm trying to create a graphics file (tried to create a wmf, but any vector graphics format would do), which would expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when added as a Clip Art to a PowerPoint slide. Many of the Clip Art wmf files that ship with PowerPoint expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when right-clicking the image on a slide (eg. ?). Which ones specifically, and what version of PPT do you use? Nevertheless, none of the wmf files that I have created (with several applications) expose the "Edit Text" menu item. I need to create files, because they will be distributed to users (together with other files), who will then add the images to their slides - just like the Clip Art images that ships with PowerPoint. ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ |
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"Edit Text" Menu Item
In article , Steelwire wrote:
That's what we've tried to do, but it seems this "extra data" is in some undocumented format (we haven't been able to access it using the Win32 API wmf functions), so we haven't been able to add it to wmf files we've created ourselves. Nor have we found any application that's capable of creating wmf files that expose the "Edit Text" menu item. I haven't run across any docs for this. Wondering out loud ... could it be a MS Office drawing format file with a WMF extension? "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: On my box, it's at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\MEDIA\OFFICE12\AutoShap\BD18204_.wmf, but most (if not all) of the files in that directory expose the "Edit Text" menu. Bingo ... I have that. No need to respond to my email from earlier. From looking at the insides of the file, I'm guessing that it's got a bit of extra data added to it that tells Office to treat it as an AutoShape rather than an ordinary imported graphic. It might be worth inserting a few of these, saving them out again as WMF and then comparing the two files to see how they differ and if there's any pattern. "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: BD18204_.wmf is a file that ships with PowerPoint and exposes the "Edit Text" menu. So far, we've tried with PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2007. For whatever reason, I don't have that one. Any chance you could email me a copy to poke at? Remind me in the email what this is about, attach the file and email to steve at-sign pptools dot com "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: I'm trying to create a graphics file (tried to create a wmf, but any vector graphics format would do), which would expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when added as a Clip Art to a PowerPoint slide. Many of the Clip Art wmf files that ship with PowerPoint expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when right-clicking the image on a slide (eg. ?). Which ones specifically, and what version of PPT do you use? Nevertheless, none of the wmf files that I have created (with several applications) expose the "Edit Text" menu item. I need to create files, because they will be distributed to users (together with other files), who will then add the images to their slides - just like the Clip Art images that ships with PowerPoint. ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ |
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"Edit Text" Menu Item
Might be. Might also be that the MS Office Drawing format would allow to add
the "Edit Text" behavior to image files - are you aware of any apps that create/edit MS Office Drawing format images and allow saving them to files? "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: That's what we've tried to do, but it seems this "extra data" is in some undocumented format (we haven't been able to access it using the Win32 API wmf functions), so we haven't been able to add it to wmf files we've created ourselves. Nor have we found any application that's capable of creating wmf files that expose the "Edit Text" menu item. I haven't run across any docs for this. Wondering out loud ... could it be a MS Office drawing format file with a WMF extension? "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: On my box, it's at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\MEDIA\OFFICE12\AutoShap\BD18204_.wmf, but most (if not all) of the files in that directory expose the "Edit Text" menu. Bingo ... I have that. No need to respond to my email from earlier. From looking at the insides of the file, I'm guessing that it's got a bit of extra data added to it that tells Office to treat it as an AutoShape rather than an ordinary imported graphic. It might be worth inserting a few of these, saving them out again as WMF and then comparing the two files to see how they differ and if there's any pattern. "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: BD18204_.wmf is a file that ships with PowerPoint and exposes the "Edit Text" menu. So far, we've tried with PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2007. For whatever reason, I don't have that one. Any chance you could email me a copy to poke at? Remind me in the email what this is about, attach the file and email to steve at-sign pptools dot com "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: I'm trying to create a graphics file (tried to create a wmf, but any vector graphics format would do), which would expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when added as a Clip Art to a PowerPoint slide. Many of the Clip Art wmf files that ship with PowerPoint expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when right-clicking the image on a slide (eg. ?). Which ones specifically, and what version of PPT do you use? Nevertheless, none of the wmf files that I have created (with several applications) expose the "Edit Text" menu item. I need to create files, because they will be distributed to users (together with other files), who will then add the images to their slides - just like the Clip Art images that ships with PowerPoint. ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ |
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"Edit Text" Menu Item
In article , Steelwire wrote:
Might be. Might also be that the MS Office Drawing format would allow to add the "Edit Text" behavior to image files - are you aware of any apps that create/edit MS Office Drawing format images and allow saving them to files? No, but when you copy something in most Office apps, one of the formats on the clipboard will be MS Office Drawing format. If you've got a way of saving that to file, that'd be a starting point. "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: That's what we've tried to do, but it seems this "extra data" is in some undocumented format (we haven't been able to access it using the Win32 API wmf functions), so we haven't been able to add it to wmf files we've created ourselves. Nor have we found any application that's capable of creating wmf files that expose the "Edit Text" menu item. I haven't run across any docs for this. Wondering out loud ... could it be a MS Office drawing format file with a WMF extension? "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: On my box, it's at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\MEDIA\OFFICE12\AutoShap\BD18204_.wmf, but most (if not all) of the files in that directory expose the "Edit Text" menu. Bingo ... I have that. No need to respond to my email from earlier. From looking at the insides of the file, I'm guessing that it's got a bit of extra data added to it that tells Office to treat it as an AutoShape rather than an ordinary imported graphic. It might be worth inserting a few of these, saving them out again as WMF and then comparing the two files to see how they differ and if there's any pattern. "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: BD18204_.wmf is a file that ships with PowerPoint and exposes the "Edit Text" menu. So far, we've tried with PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2007. For whatever reason, I don't have that one. Any chance you could email me a copy to poke at? Remind me in the email what this is about, attach the file and email to steve at-sign pptools dot com "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: In article , Steelwire wrote: I'm trying to create a graphics file (tried to create a wmf, but any vector graphics format would do), which would expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when added as a Clip Art to a PowerPoint slide. Many of the Clip Art wmf files that ship with PowerPoint expose the "Edit Text" menu item, when right-clicking the image on a slide (eg. ?). Which ones specifically, and what version of PPT do you use? Nevertheless, none of the wmf files that I have created (with several applications) expose the "Edit Text" menu item. I need to create files, because they will be distributed to users (together with other files), who will then add the images to their slides - just like the Clip Art images that ships with PowerPoint. ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ |
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