Double-Click to Format Autoshape/Format Text Box

[ketchup318]

Hi, I've upgraded to Office 2007 from Office 2003.

I was wondering what happened to the ability to open up the Format
Autoshape/Format Textbox. In Word 2003, it's was as simple as double-clicking
the object you want to change.

In Word 2007, double-clicking an object doesn't do much. It just makes the
ribbon go to the TextBox/Picture Tools and the Format Tab. To change the
picture/textbox, you would have to manually click the Size Option and then
change your options. It seems a lot more tedious now.

Is there something that I'm missing? Is there a shortcut?

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi, I've upgraded to Office 2007 from Office 2003.

I was wondering what happened to the ability to open up the Format
Autoshape/Format Textbox. In Word 2003, it's was as simple as
double-clicking the object you want to change.

In Word 2007, double-clicking an object doesn't do much. It just
makes the ribbon go to the TextBox/Picture Tools and the Format Tab.
To change the picture/textbox, you would have to manually click the
Size Option and then change your options. It seems a lot more tedious
now.

Is there something that I'm missing? Is there a shortcut?

I can't tell you why the double-click doesn't work any more (and
double-clicking the little box off the northwest corner of a table no longer
opens the Table Properties dialog).

There are two shortcuts, though:

- Right-click the edge of the text box, and click Format Text Box at the
bottom of the menu.

- Click the little arrow button at the right end of the Text Box Styles
group on the Text Box Tools ribbon.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I also wish they'd restore the double-click functionality.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org