Unwrapping Text

[stew]

I have a text box in Vision 2003 which is very tall and narrow (Width
10 mm, Height 160 mm).

I have entered text "Stakeholder Meeting". As would be expected, this
text is wrapped to read:

Stak
eholder
meet
ing

I have therefore rotated the text in an attempt to get the two words
displayed at ninety degrees to the normal.

However, Visio retains the wrapping (un-necessarily) resulting in a
terrible looking diagram, with the text looking like the example above
albeit through 90 degrees and now flowing out of the top and bottom of
the text box.

There must be a way of removing this wrapping?? Anyone know how??

Thanks,

Stew

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

When you rotated the text block, did you readjust it's size. It sounds like
the text block is still based on the shapes width. Use the Text Tool to
readjust he text block size.

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[Paul Herber]

I have a text box in Vision 2003 which is very tall and narrow (Width
10 mm, Height 160 mm).

I have entered text "Stakeholder Meeting". As would be expected, this
text is wrapped to read:

Stak
eholder
meet
ing

I have therefore rotated the text in an attempt to get the two words
displayed at ninety degrees to the normal.

However, Visio retains the wrapping (un-necessarily) resulting in a
terrible looking diagram, with the text looking like the example above
albeit through 90 degrees and now flowing out of the top and bottom of
the text box.

There must be a way of removing this wrapping?? Anyone know how??

In the shape's shapesheet, in the TextTransform section (add it if not
already there) set the cell
TxtWidth = Textwidth(TheText))

 

[stew]

In the shape's shapesheet, in the TextTransform section (add it if not
already there) set the cell
TxtWidth = Textwidth(TheText))

Many thanks for the excellent advice.

For other novice users, I would just add that to access the ShapeSheet,
it is necessary to select "Show ShapeSheet" from the Window menu once
you have selected the text box.

Thanks again!

Stewart

 

[stew]

I have further refined the above advice to achieve exactly what I
needed to achieve.

I have changed the TxtWidth field (in the ShapeSheet) to read
=Height*1
and TxtHeight to be =Width*1

i.e. effectively swapping the two attributes around. Combined with the
Text Angle (TxtAngle) being 90 deg, all is perfect.

Thanks,

Stewart