Grouped Objects in MS-Excel 2007

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Girish Dodd

Hi,

I have been a regular user of Ms-Excel 2000 / 2003.But I have being forced to switch to 2007 version on my office computer :(, of the many issues, one problem that I have is like this

I have grouped objects ( Rectangles with Text ). To be precise I have grouped 10 rectangular objects in a manner that it seems as a table with 5 'rows' and 2 'columns'.

Well you might wonder why can't I use cells instead of a drawing object, Now this ( grouped objects ) is like a "header" that I want to use in most of the MS Excel documents that I work with. So even if I resize the columns ( below the header) to different widths, the grouped objects ( so called header ) will remain unmoved as I have chosen the option
Size and Properties -> Properties -> Don't move or size with cells. All fine until now.


Now MS-Excel 2007 still allows a user to select a individual object ( one of the rectangles) and move it left, right and center. As far as I remember earlier whenever objects are grouped they could not be resized/moved independantly of the other objects that they are grouped with.

Of course there is a feature to protect the worksheet, but when protected, this does not allow me to edit the text in the rectangles.

Is there is any way that i can prevent an individual object ( part of group ) from moving / resizing independantly by itself ? without using the protect option ?

Thanks in advance
Girish








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Bob Umlas

Since the group rectangle expands when you move one of the rectangles,
keeping it inside the group, I'd say this is a feature, not a bug, but it
was a surprise to me too. You can take a screenshot of the rectangles and
use that picture instead of the grouped rectangles and nobody will be able
to grab just one item.
HTH
Bob Umlas, Excel MVP


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