Adding text to autoshape doesn't fill the shape like in the help file

[JohnSReid]

Does anyone know how to make the text fill up the autoshape like the
images in the help in Word 2003?

When I add text to an autoshape, the text appears in a square within
the shape, wasting a lot of area.

I want to text to go right up to the edges of the shape.

Anyone know how this is done?

 

[Guest]

I don't know what shape you are trying to fill, but some of them can be
pretty awkward - diamonds for eg because even if you set the format to have
no border space the text still occurs as a square that does not reach the
sides of the diamond.

There is probably a 'pro' way of getting round this, but I just make a text
box bigger than the autoshape - making sure it is transparent -; plonk it on
top of the autoshape; write my text in the new text box, and stretch to fit
the underlying shape. Then group the two objects so they don't get out of
line again.

Easy!

S

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can reduce the internal margins of the text box in the AutoShape, and
that can help a little, but the main problem is that the textbox is always a
rectangle/square, so the text never completely fills AutoShapes that are not
rectangular/square.