Copying from one ppt to another resizes objects

[simonc]

I am using Powerpoint 2000 with Windows XP Pro SP3.

I made a powerpoint for screen presentation and now I am copying the
contents of slides into a new powerpoint with a different page size to be
used as figures in a report. Certain objects - rectangular boxes, and oval
shapes - copy correctly at first but as soon as I move them in the new ppt
they get resized. What's more, in some cases they won't allow me to increase
the size beyond a certain limit to get them to the size they were in the
original. I assume something has been set in the new ppt which is affecting
the size of these objects. Can anyone help and suggest what I can to to stop
this happening?

Grateful for advice.

 

[simonc]

It turned out not to have anything to do with copying and pasting. Instead,
certain objects had been set to "resize autoshape to fit text". When you try
to move an object with this setting it immediately changes its height to a
fixed value, and doesn't allow you to change it.

Now, I suppose I need a macro to try and clear that resize setting from all
shapes which don't have any text. Grateful for thoughts on how to do this.

 

[simonc]

Many thanks for this.