Hi all,

A problem I noticed recently by copy/pasting things from Powerpoint to
Word...

Try the following things:
text box1: normal (horizontal writing...)
text box2: crtl-click\format text box\text box\rotate text by 90º
text box3: select\draw\rotate or flip\rotate right
text box4: select\draw\rotate or flip\rotate left

Note: actually, wanted textbox positionning is textbox4

Now select all, copy and paste to a word document.
So what happened? textbox 1 and 2 are ok (properties from text box), but
when the textbox are "manually" rotated, the positionning is lost in
word??!!

What to do to keep textbox4 (left written) in the correct form in word?
Is it possible to change maybe the "rotation text by 90º" (as in textbox2)
from right (by default) to left (more "natural").
This is a pretty annoying bug there... Specially by copy/pasting from one
Office program to another one (should be homogenous, shouldn't it??)

Please, any help would be great!!!
Thanks in advance.

Ludo

Hi

As you have noticed, Word treats text boxes differently from PowerPoint.
While in Word, choose View > Toolbars > TextBox. Click the "Change Text
Direction" button.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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In article <BB627E74.28EF%gillet[at]imr.unizh.ch>, Ludovic Gillet
<gillet[at]imr.unizh.ch> wrote:


>
> Hi all,
>
> A problem I noticed recently by copy/pasting things from Powerpoint to
> Word...
>
> Try the following things:
> text box1: normal (horizontal writing...)
> text box2: crtl-click\format text box\text box\rotate text by 90º
> text box3: select\draw\rotate or flip\rotate right
> text box4: select\draw\rotate or flip\rotate left
>
> Note: actually, wanted textbox positionning is textbox4
>
> Now select all, copy and paste to a word document.
> So what happened? textbox 1 and 2 are ok (properties from text box), but
> when the textbox are "manually" rotated, the positionning is lost in
> word??!!
>
> What to do to keep textbox4 (left written) in the correct form in word?
> Is it possible to change maybe the "rotation text by 90º" (as in textbox2)
> from right (by default) to left (more "natural").
> This is a pretty annoying bug there... Specially by copy/pasting from one
> Office program to another one (should be homogenous, shouldn't it??)
>
> Please, any help would be great!!!
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Ludo
>

Hi Benjamin,

None of the examples you gave involved copying and pasting slides. They all
involve text boxes.

You are correct about not being able to paste a slide as an OLE (object
linking and embedding) object directly into Word or PowerPoint. The
workaround is to paste the picture and then make a hyperlink to the file of
the presentation, which is somewhat of a bother.

And your suggestion to send feedback to Microsoft is excellent. Customer
requests are very important when it comes to setting priorities for features
in Mac office.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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In article <BB6D9CF6.EFEE%bamsaleg[at]slovaquie.org>, Benjamin Amsaleg
<bamsaleg[at]slovaquie.org> wrote:


>
> Please, please,
> Help me convince MS that this all mess is a non sense, and that Mac PPT
> should be, like in windows, able to paste a slide (embedded, editable in PPT
> like when you paste an excel table)!
>
> This is one of my favorite missing cross platform feature that I am not
> optimistic to get in the next office.
>
> So please all send your feedback to MS
> http://www.microsoft.com/mac/feedback/suggestion.asp
>
> Thanks
> ;-)
>
>
> in article u#VPvLSaDHA.1740[at]TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl, [NAME] at [ADDRESS] wrote
> on 23/08/03 5:02:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> As you have noticed, Word treats text boxes differently from PowerPoint.
>> While in Word, choose View > Toolbars > TextBox. Click the "Change Text
>> Direction" button.
>>
>> -Jim Gordon
>> Mac MVP
>>
>> All responses should be made to this newsgroup within the same thread.
>> Thanks.
>>
>> About Microsoft MVPs:
>> http://www.mvps.org/
>>
>> Search for help with the free Google search Excel add-in:
>> <http://www.rondebruin.nl/Google.htm>
>>
>> ----------
>> In article <BB627E74.28EF%gillet[at]imr.unizh.ch>, Ludovic Gillet
>> <gillet[at]imr.unizh.ch> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> A problem I noticed recently by copy/pasting things from Powerpoint to
>>> Word...
>>>
>>> Try the following things:
>>> text box1: normal (horizontal writing...)
>>> text box2: crtl-click\format text box\text box\rotate text by 90º
>>> text box3: select\draw\rotate or flip\rotate right
>>> text box4: select\draw\rotate or flip\rotate left
>>>
>>> Note: actually, wanted textbox positionning is textbox4
>>>
>>> Now select all, copy and paste to a word document.
>>> So what happened? textbox 1 and 2 are ok (properties from text box), but
>>> when the textbox are "manually" rotated, the positionning is lost in
>>> word??!!
>>>
>>> What to do to keep textbox4 (left written) in the correct form in word?
>>> Is it possible to change maybe the "rotation text by 90º" (as in textbox2)
>>> from right (by default) to left (more "natural").
>>> This is a pretty annoying bug there... Specially by copy/pasting from one
>>> Office program to another one (should be homogenous, shouldn't it??)
>>>
>>> Please, any help would be great!!!
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Ludo
>>>
>
>