Preventing text wrapping

[Marek Wasilewski]

Hi
I wasn't sure whether to post here or on the developer site, but here goes.
Some of the shapes that a user can "drop" onto the page are small and the
associated text tends to wrap around if the text is wider than the width of
the shape. Is there any way of preventing this text wrap?

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

Best regards,

Marek

 

[Chris Roth [ Visio MVP ]]

Visio lacks the dotdotdot "Don't show all the te..." feature for it's
shapes.

On the other hand, you can get shapes to grow so that the geometry always
encompasses the text.

Open the Blocks stencil, and check out "Auto-size box" and "Auto-height box"
They use the ShapeSheet formulas TextWidth() and TextHeight() to do some
calculations.

You could probably do some tricks with automation code (VBA, etc.) There are
various text events for shapes and pages that might help you.

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP