Encompassing existing drawings onto a Canvas (WD 2002)

[Tony]

The drawing canvas works for me better than grouping. There's some bug or
other in my printer driver that occasionally hides callout text in grouped
objects - doesn't happen when I use the canvas to "group" things. I'm happy
with the canvas.

I can easily create the canvas then drag my drawings onto it - but the new
canvas immediately inserts itself into the page layout (shoving everything
else aside) and then hides itself when I try to drag my existing things onto
it - it's a fair bit of guesswork. The canvas boundaries don't make
themselves evident unless it's selected.

What I'm looking for is something that I can select an existing group and
say "create a canvas and put this on it" all in one go, so the new canvas
takes the place of the existing drawing.

Is there something in Word 2002 that does this, or would it be a case for
the VBA group?

Any ideas?

thanks
Tony

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Tony,

One way to help find a new drawing canvas is to
select it and use the fill icon on the toolbar to
create a colored background. That can make it easier
to locate visually.

You can also copy the 'multipage'
zoom setting from the Picture Preview toolbar to
the standard toolbar (hold ctrl+alt keys when dragging)
so that you can see multiple pages at one time if your
canvas is on a different page than the items you want
to move there.

One of the folks who works more with macros may be
able to consolidate existing shapes into a Drawing
Canvas for you.

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The drawing canvas works for me better than grouping. There's some bug or
other in my printer driver that occasionally hides callout text in grouped
objects - doesn't happen when I use the canvas to "group" things. I'm happy
with the canvas.

I can easily create the canvas then drag my drawings onto it - but the new
canvas immediately inserts itself into the page layout (shoving everything
else aside) and then hides itself when I try to drag my existing things onto
it - it's a fair bit of guesswork. The canvas boundaries don't make
themselves evident unless it's selected.

What I'm looking for is something that I can select an existing group and
say "create a canvas and put this on it" all in one go, so the new canvas
takes the place of the existing drawing.

Is there something in Word 2002 that does this, or would it be a case for
the VBA group?

Any ideas?

thanks
Tony >>
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I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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