Word 2000: Select-All in Picture-Ojbect

[Mister.Fred.Ma]

I'm copied a collection of line-art objects from Powerpoint into a
Microsoft Picture Object in Word 2000. I had to resize some of the
text boxes to prevent cropping. I then clicked "Reset Picture
Boundary" in the "Edit Picture" floating tool bar to get proper
boundaries. I cannot seem to Select -All on the line art objects in
the Microsoft Picture Object. This is a big problem because it is
unrealistic to individually select all the line art objects simply to
transfer back to Powerpoint for further editing (at a future date).
The only alternative I can think of is to import the Powerpoint
picture as an external file. I certainly don't like that because I
need a separate file for each picture. Furthermore, since the Word
document's figures now depend on external files, it is easy to
inadvertently change the document by editing the external files (or
even losing them in a quick-and-dirty copy). Is there a way to simply
have the line-art objects in a Microsoft Picture object and still be
able to Select-All? Thank you.

Fred

 

[Mister.Fred.Ma]

I'm copied a collection of line-art objects from Powerpoint into a
Microsoft Picture Object in Word 2000. I had to resize some of the
text boxes to prevent cropping. I then clicked "Reset Picture
Boundary" in the "Edit Picture" floating tool bar to get proper
boundaries. I cannot seem to Select -All on the line art objects in
the Microsoft Picture Object. This is a big problem because it is
unrealistic to individually select all the line art objects simply to
transfer back to Powerpoint for further editing (at a future date).
The only alternative I can think of is to import the Powerpoint
picture as an external file. I certainly don't like that because I
need a separate file for each picture. Furthermore, since the Word
document's figures now depend on external files, it is easy to
inadvertently change the document by editing the external files (or
even losing them in a quick-and-dirty copy). Is there a way to simply
have the line-art objects in a Microsoft Picture object and still be
able to Select-All?

Excuse me; I said "Microsoft Picture Object" above, but I meant
"Microsoft Word Picutre. I also tried inserting Microsoft Powerpoint
Slide in Word, but I can't resize the box without resizing the picture
content within it. So hopefully, there is a way to use Microsoft Word
Picture and still Select-All the line art objects within for future
editing in Powerpoint.

I tried copying the entire Microsoft Word Picture to a Powerpoint
slide, but the figure gets changed. What use to be text boxes with
edges turned visible turned into separate text boxes and surrounding
box objects. So transplanting the Microsoft Word Picture is not a
good solution.

 

[Keith Howell]

I don't have Word 2000 to check but unless I am misunderstanding what you
want to do, can't you simply copy your PowerPoiint object(s) straight to your
Word page, not into a picture object

 

[Mister.Fred.Ma]

I don't have Word 2000 to check but unless I am misunderstanding what you
want to do, can't you simply copy your PowerPoiint object(s) straight to your
Word page, not into a picture object

Yes, but it overlaps with my regular text. Or so I seem to recall.
I'm don't have access to an office-2000 machine at the moment.