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How To Set Every Text Box To 125% of its text width?



 
 
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Old May 24th, 2010, 05:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.visio.general
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Default How To Set Every Text Box To 125% of its text width?

I am using Visio 2003 Std.

In Visio, I was using the ShapeSheet and using Insert Menu to select Text
Transform. I was not able to select Text Transform until there was a text
box on my template. What did I do wrong ??

There was an article aa200988 by msdn that indicated setting the txtWidth =
Max(TextWidth(theText),8*Char.Size). I was going to change the 8 to 10 to
just give me more textwidth so that when I resize, text wrap around would not
happen.

I like a way to set all my text to have a percentage text width wider that
is based on the number of text characters. Can some one help show me how
to do this ??? I tried and failed.

Is there a way to do this with an existing Visio drawing too ????

Thanks,

G
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Old May 24th, 2010, 03:33 PM posted to microsoft.public.visio.general
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Default How To Set Every Text Box To 125% of its text width?

On Sun, 23 May 2010 21:36:01 -0700, G wrote:

I am using Visio 2003 Std.

In Visio, I was using the ShapeSheet and using Insert Menu to select Text
Transform. I was not able to select Text Transform until there was a text
box on my template. What did I do wrong ??


You can't select it if it isn't there! If it isn't there then add it. menu Insert -
Section


There was an article aa200988 by msdn that indicated setting the txtWidth =
Max(TextWidth(theText),8*Char.Size). I was going to change the 8 to 10 to
just give me more textwidth so that when I resize, text wrap around would not
happen.


try something like
txtWidth = Width * 1.25



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Old May 24th, 2010, 09:38 PM posted to microsoft.public.visio.general
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Default How To Set Every Text Box To 125% of its text width?

The suggestion does work for the select text box !!!

When I add a new text box, the default width is just over 2 inches wide.
When I select that text box, and check on the Text Transform, the width is
still the degault from MS Visio. Once I change it to = Width * 1.25, it
works.

Is there a way when I place a text box on my drawing, that after entering
text, it gets resize to 1.25 of the width ????

I seems that I will need to select all of the text to do this ???

Will this process work for old drawings ???

Thank You,

G



"Paul Herber" wrote:

On Sun, 23 May 2010 21:36:01 -0700, G wrote:

I am using Visio 2003 Std.

In Visio, I was using the ShapeSheet and using Insert Menu to select Text
Transform. I was not able to select Text Transform until there was a text
box on my template. What did I do wrong ??


You can't select it if it isn't there! If it isn't there then add it. menu Insert -
Section


There was an article aa200988 by msdn that indicated setting the txtWidth =
Max(TextWidth(theText),8*Char.Size). I was going to change the 8 to 10 to
just give me more textwidth so that when I resize, text wrap around would not
happen.


try something like
txtWidth = Width * 1.25



--
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
Electronics for Visio http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electronics/
Electrical for Visio http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electrical/
Electronics Packages for Visio http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electronics-packages/
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Old May 24th, 2010, 11:02 PM posted to microsoft.public.visio.general
Paul Herber[_2_]
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Default How To Set Every Text Box To 125% of its text width?

On Mon, 24 May 2010 13:38:08 -0700, G wrote:

The suggestion does work for the select text box !!!

When I add a new text box, the default width is just over 2 inches wide.
When I select that text box, and check on the Text Transform, the width is
still the degault from MS Visio. Once I change it to = Width * 1.25, it
works.

Is there a way when I place a text box on my drawing, that after entering
text, it gets resize to 1.25 of the width ????

I seems that I will need to select all of the text to do this ???

Will this process work for old drawings ???


Create a text box shape to suit your needs, save it to a new stencil.
You can now use this shape for all your future text box needs.

There is a way to do this for all your old drawings. It involves downloading and
installing some software from my website. You may like it so much that...

http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-utilities/

and look at menu SuperUtils - Shape - Shape substitute
It can replace all your old text boxes with your shiny new shape in just a few seconds per
diagram.

Simples.



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Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
Electronics for Visio http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electronics/
Electrical for Visio http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electrical/
Electronics Packages for Visio http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-electronics-packages/
 




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